Grades PreK–12
Custom Collections Create a Classroom Library That Meets Your Needs
While school libraries have to cater to large populations with varying needs, a classroom library can and should be tailor-made to support its specific students and curriculum. A well-designed classroom library will: Build for All Types of Reading and All Kinds of Readers
Align with the Curriculum to help students build deeper knowledge through a wide range of text types on the topics being taught.
Level Up and Down two to three grades in each direction to support all readers through more accessible and more challenging texts.
Reflect Your Students to make reading more relevant, meaningful, and enjoyable.
Be Codesigned with Students to ensure books are read and read a lot. Asking students what they want to read builds both trust and reading buy-in.
Be Robust by offering multiple genres, a variety of text types, and formats.
The Most Trusted Name in Classroom Libraries
School districts, literacy coaches, and classroom teachers in every state have turned to us for their classroom libraries for more than half a century. We first strive to deeply understand your specific needs, students, and goals. With that knowledge we can then apply our extensive expertise in titles, grade levels, student favorites, and library configurations to build a made-for-you solution.
Who We Are Former and current educators, editors, and publishing professionals who all share a passion for literacy, learning, and supporting educators. What We Do Build and refresh classroom library collections. Partner with educators to identify gaps and needs and co-design solutions to align with your goals. How We Do It We first review thousands of books from multiple publishers for the best new titles. We then review data from our internal partners at Scholastic Book Fairs and Clubs to identify titles that have captured students’ hearts and minds.
Customization Our team of education experts can create customized booklists for districts—avoiding duplication across grade levels—and align selections to state academic standards. We also offer personalized consultations, analyzing your current classroom libraries and school data to help identify needs and recommended next steps.
Classroom libraries are an important component of elementary classrooms. These collections support readers’ literate identities, their motivation to read, and their access to texts that reflect a world outside of the classroom. —Henderson et al., 2020
Step 1 Identify Gaps in Your Classroom Scholastic’s team of education experts can work with you to evaluate the areas where your classroom library needs the most work. With research-based evaluation tips and a massive catalog of high-quality books , our teams will help ensure your library reflects best practices, your students’ interests and abilities, and aligns to your curriculum for deeper knowledge-building opportunities.
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Choose from more than 50 professional books by leading education researchers and experts that will support teachers in their classrooms every single day.
Access to an abundance of books within the classroom results in increased motivation and increased reading achievement. —Kelley and Clausen-Grace, 2010; Worthy and Roser, 2010; Guthrie, 2008; Routman, 2014
Students in classrooms with effective, well- designed classroom libraries interact more with books, spend more time reading, demonstrate more positive attitudes toward reading, and exhibit higher levels of reading achievement. —Steiner et al., 2008
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Scholastic’s team of education experts will work with you to identify the books your library needs and the books that students want to read to create customized booklists.
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Step 6 Request Special Packing and Shipping
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Our unique Value-Added Processing (VAP) department allows us to personalize an order to meet a teacher’s specific needs . We can customize your shipments with labels and barcodes, so you can easily unpack and distribute them and get straight to the business of learning.
Building a Culture of Literacy Begins with Access Effective classroom libraries are a key foundation for building classroom communities steeped in literacy and learning. Students in classrooms with libraries read 50–60% more than students who do not have the same access to books. This additional time spent reading each day is consistently linked to higher achievement scores.
We can meet your custom collection needs—from a customized booklist to an entire classroom library, and anything in between:
District Goals State Standards Funding Opportunities
Core Curriculums • CKLA (Amplify) • The Creative Curriculum (Teaching Strategies) • EL Education (Imagine Learning) • Frog Street PreK (Frog Street) • Into Reading (HMH) • myView Literacy (SAVVAS)
Themes/Topics Content Areas Spanish
• Ready to Advance (Benchmark) • Three Cheers for PreK (SAVVAS) • Wit & Wisdom (Great Minds) • Wonders (McGraw Hill) • And More!
For more information, call us at (800) 387-1437 or visit scholastic.com/classroomlibraries.
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