Promote access to TeachingBooks resources

• Embed fun widgets into your digital spaces and add buttons on your pages to make TeachingBooks accessible.

• Enrich Google searches with literary connections by adding the Chrome extension to school computers!

Make your space interactive with QR code printables:

• Decorate your classroom or library with shelf talkers! Explore our Book Trailers Collection and Complete Meet-the-Author & Illustrator Collection for resources to feature.

• Label your bookshelves or book baskets with new author shelf cards, that link to all the resources for titles by each author! Access these cards within the sharing options on author pages.

• Use the share tools to find resource QR codes you can copy and paste into your own slideshows or lesson activities.

Plan a get-to-know-each-other activity using Author Name Pronunciations!

• Try out the Author Name Game or choose your own from the Author & Illustrator Pronunciation Guide to share with your students as models, then have students write and share out loud about their own names.

Incorporate Book Guides, Activities, & Lessons into your plans!

• Print out some picture book activity kits for younger students to enjoy!

• Find discussion questions that inspire reflection in book guides..

• Differentiate and scaffold instruction with customizable Multi-Leveled Lessons.

• Integrate new graphic organizers into your lesson plans and save time.

Explore Back-to-School inspired curated lists of titles to display or share with readers!

• Find some titles to read aloud the first week of school from these curated thematic lists:
  
  • Are You Ready? School's Open!
  • Back-to-School Stories
  • New Year, New Books: It's Back to School
  • Welcome to School, Friend!
  • It's Back-to-School Time!
  • New Month, New Friends, and New School Year!
  • September Starts

Easily create or upload your own Custom Lists to use and share:

• Embed class lists of texts for the year or semester into your digital spaces for easy access to supporting resources.

• Print bookmarks or flyers that link to your lists and related resources to share with families at Family Night.

• Organize titles and resources by creating custom lists for your units.

Check out these activity ideas for Students:

Younger Students

• Start the year off with a laugh by watching this video book trailer for The Pigeon Has to Go to School! Then share these activity sheets with your students.

• Play an ice-breaker dice game, or draw portraits of your school with the activity kit for School’s First Day of School.

• Find the complete book reading and a fun friendship craft for We Don’t Eat Our Classmates on this page, then color and play games with these activity sheets.

• Inspire student connection as you embark on a new year’s journey together with this video book reading of Our Class is a Family.

• Brainstorm together a list of important things to learn the first week of school, after watching the complete book reading of How to Get Your Teacher Ready.

Older Students

• Prompt student participation and leadership by compiling their recommendations for books they read over the summer into a list, then create bookmarks to share. Now students can explore recommendations from their peers!

• Have students create lists of what they would like to learn before they finish high school, then encourage exploration on TeachingBooks to find some resources that might match their interests.

• Encourage students to use TeachingBooks to do an author study for authors of books you will be teaching this year: listen to Name Pronunciations, Meet-the-Author recordings, and interviews, then create posters for each author to display and incorporate QR code author cards.

• Explore games to ease into the school year together.

• Direct students to the Reader’s Advisory page to help them find their next independent read.