Spring is a fantastic time to refresh your classroom library with new titles that’ll engage students and encourage independent reading. Scholastic Collections provide a quick, easy, and cost-effective way to spruce up your library through curated collections that are specifically designed to enrich your curricula, engage your students, and provide you with the tools you’ll need to celebrate the academic, social, and linguistic backgrounds of all your students.
Rising Voices Classroom Library
Featuring a mix of nonfiction, biographies, and culturally-relevant fiction, Scholastic has partnered with David C. Banks, President and CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation and Founding Principal of The Eagle Academy for Young Men, to curate the Rising Voices Classroom Library for Grades K–5. This collection highlights stories of the most underrepresented literary protagonists in our classrooms: boys of color. By fostering a classroom community that supports positive representation and equity, students of all backgrounds will benefit from widening the scope of their world in books and beyond.
With this collection, you can build a rich classroom community, enabling deep discussions about social justice issues and identity development while giving students the tools they need to grow as leaders and thinkers. Books in this library have been selected with five Rising Voices themes in mind:
- Family, Culture, and Community: How can I help others around me? How do others enrich my life and make me feel safe and protected?
- Someone LIke Me/Memorable Characters: How does learning that the people in these books are like me or like people I know help me better understand myself and the world?
- Heroes and Role Models: What qualities make someone a hero? What lessons can I learn from the courageous actions of people from the past?
- Strong and Resilient/Problem Solvers: What qualities help people succeed when they face challenges?
Thinking Beyond Today: What can I learn from how the people in books dream and plan for the future? How do people of vision imagine what they want to achieve and then make what they imagine a reality?
The Four Pillars Classroom Library
Finding books that are engaging, relevant, and representative of your students’ backgrounds, interests, and skills is paramount to establishing academic success and creating super readers. The Four Pillars Classroom Library for Grades K–5 is built upon the four pillars of structured independent reading necessary for student achievement. Instructional supports provide you with a framework to implement purposeful and structured independent reading while providing students with a way to think deeply about the books that they love to read. The Four Pillars of Structured Independent Reading are:
High Student Engagement: Expose your students to authentic titles that motivate them, capture their interest, and introduce them to rich language in contexts that they will encounter in the real world.
Social-Emotional Learning: Provide your students tools to help them develop the aptitude to listen and reflect while building their fluency and comprehension skills.
Culturally Relevant Texts: Offer your students both mirrors to see themselves in as well as windows to gain insight into the world around them.
Genre Study: Provide your students with titles that foster their depth of knowledge across all genres while supporting their instruction.
Ready-to-Go Classroom Library
Whether you’re adding to an existing library or starting from scratch, the Ready-To-Go Classroom Libraries for Grades K–8 are a convenient, cost-effective way to provide the ultimate foundation for your classroom library. Featuring a variety of engaging fiction and nonfiction titles, these collections aid in developing your students’ vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency while meeting their individual needs and interests. You’ll find an assortment of ready-to-go collections including:
- Favorites collections that motivate and engage readers
- Independent Reading collections that provide students at every level with books they can read with accuracy and success
- Nonfiction collections that offer high-interest content area titles to build background knowledge
- Spanish collections that provide English learners with a rich choice of engaging titles for independent reading
Guided Reading Level Packs
Research shows that independent reading is the biggest predictor of literacy success.
Empower your small-group instruction and independent learning with a strong selection of guided reading books that support all of your students. The Guided Reading Level Packs A–Z for Grades K–6 are a perfect complement to your guided reading program or leveled classroom library. These above-level, at-level, and below-level libraries provide your students with the books they want at levels they can read with success.
The 7 Strengths Library
Foster social-emotional learning, independence, empathy, and civic engagement in your students with this powerful collection. The 7 Strengths Library, available for Grades K–7 in English and Spanish, is a diverse, dynamic, and empowering collection that contains 100 books (50 titles; 2 copies each) and a Teacher’s Guide with impactful tips and strategies to build vocabulary, assist emerging bilinguals, and more. Based off Scholastic's Professional Books Every Child is a Super Reader, each title was carefully selected to engage students through the lens of the Seven Strengths:
- Belonging
- Curiosity
- Friendship
- Kindness
- Confidence
- Courage
- Hope
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