Celebrate the ALA Youth Media Awards with this Book Awards Digital Bulletin Board. It features 10 secondary book awards for middle school library and high school library lessons. Includes Printz Award, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, Pura Belpre, Odyssey, and Sibert. **January 28, 2024 - Updated to include the 2024 Book Award Winners! Next update coming circa Feb. 1, 2025.Click the PREVIEW button above for a visual description of what's included.Need the elementary version? See my Book Awards Libra
Students love watching this Halloween Digital Bulletin Boards scroll in the library! Play this one on a loop during the week of Halloween. Features fun facts, trivia questions, classic horror novel quotations, vocabulary, and more. Includes editable recommended reads bookmarks.FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS HALLOWEEN DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARDRecommended for: Grades 7-12Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDFEditable: YES, all text is editableScroll duration: 30 minutes (40 student slides X 45 seconds each)HERE
Host a Starbooks book tasting in your own classroom! This resource comes with 10 slides. Six are included in a PDF format. The remaining four are customizable slides within Powerpoint. However, if you would like to use them in Google Slides, simply screenshot them and add them as the background of your Google Slides presentation! Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
I recently created this classroom library genre poster for my own classroom and thought it would be great to share! This includes the original poster as well as an editable version.Please note, if you want the font to be the exact same as mine when you are editing it, you must purchase it. The font is $6 from Amy Grosebeck's Volume 13 Pack. I HIGHLY recommend any of her fonts, I have a ton of her packs!Enjoy and be sure to leave feedback below!Follow me on Instagram: @emmainelementaryThank you!E
Here are some of the best middle grades and YA realistic fiction and graphic novels titles from 2022- early 2023 in a PowerPoint.I curated these titles from various state and national lists, such as the ALA Youth Media awards.School Library Journal typically has the most conservative age ranges in its reviews, which I used to determine MS, HS or MS/HS (ex.: Gr 7+).When possible, the titles have at least 2 positive reviews from any of the following professional journals:Booklist (BL)Kirkus Review
Here are some of the best middle grades and YA adventure and mystery titles from 2022- early 2023 in a PowerPoint.I curated these titles from various state and national lists, such as the ALA Youth Media awards.School Library Journal typically has the most conservative age ranges in its reviews, which I used to determine MS, HS or MS/HS (ex.: Gr 7+).When possible, the titles have at least 2 positive reviews from any of the following professional journals:Booklist (BL)Kirkus Review (KR)Publishers
This pack includes welcome signs, reading posters, kindness posters, library section labels, table numbers, and Dewey posters. 8.5x11 and 4x6 signs included. The 4x6 signs are editable.
Studying the Newbery winners for 1990-1999?
I use this presentation. I do a Book Talk on each book, and when I get to a book that some of the students know, they love to add their views of the book!
NEWBERY WINNERS:
1999: Holes
1998: Out of the Dust
1997: A View from Saturday
1996: A Midwife's Apprentice
1995: Walk Two Moons
1994: The Giver
1993: Missing May
1992: Shiloh
1991: Maniac Magee
1990: Number the Stars
I like introducing the books this way, so I don't have to hold all the books unti
Studying the Newbery winners for 1970-1979?
I use this presentation. I do a Book Talk on each book, and when I get to a book that some of the students know, they love to add their views of the book!
NEWBERY WINNERS:
1979: The Westing Game
1978: Bridge to Terabithia
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
1976: The Grey King
1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great
1974: The Slave Dancer
1973: Julie of the Wolves
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971: Summer of the Swans
1970: Sounder
I like introducing
Check out these super cute free reading signs for your classroom or library decor! I created these signs to frame in my library when my theme was "Reading is Sweet". I just purchased some black 8" x 10" picture frames from Dollar Tree and cut the signs to size. They looked so cute and really popped against our gray walls. These printable signs are actually all black and white. I created this set to be editable for coloring in the background for those who have access to a color printer. However,
Here are some of the best middle grades and YA fantasy titles from 2022- early 2023 in a Google Slideshow.I curated these titles from various state and national lists, such as the ALA Youth Media awards.School Library Journal typically has the most conservative age ranges in its reviews, which I used to determine MS, HS or MS/HS (ex.: Gr 7+).When possible, the titles have at least 2 positive reviews from any of the following professional journals:Booklist (BL)Kirkus Review (KR)Publishers Weekly
Studying the Newbery winners for 1980-1989?
I use this presentation. I do a Book Talk on each book, and when I get to a book that some of the students know, they love to add their views of the book!
NEWBERY WINNERS:
1989: Joyful Noise
1988: Lincoln: a Photobiography
1987: The Whipping Boy
1986: Sarah Plain and Tall
1985: The Hero and the Crown
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983: Dicey's Song
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn
1981: Jacob Have I Loved
1980: A Gathering of Days
I like introducing
Here are some of the best middle grades and YA paranormal titles from 2022- early 2023 in a PowerPoint.I curated these titles from various state and national lists, such as the ALA Youth Media awards.School Library Journal typically has the most conservative age ranges in its reviews, which I used to determine MS, HS or MS/HS (ex.: Gr 7+).When possible, the titles have at least 2 positive reviews from any of the following professional journals:Booklist (BL)Kirkus Review (KR)Publishers Weekly (PW
Here are some of the best middle grades and YA historical fiction titles from 2022- early 2023 in a PowerPoint.I curated these titles from various state and national lists, such as the ALA Youth Media awards.School Library Journal typically has the most conservative age ranges in its reviews, which I used to determine MS, HS or MS/HS (ex.: Gr 7+).When possible, the titles have at least 2 positive reviews from any of the following professional journals:Booklist (BL)Kirkus Review (KR)Publishers We
Here are some of the best middle grades and YA science fiction titles from 2022- early 2023 in a PowerPoint.I curated these titles from various state and national lists, such as the ALA Youth Media awards.School Library Journal typically has the most conservative age ranges in its reviews, which I used to determine MS, HS or MS/HS (ex.: Gr 7+).When possible, the titles have at least 2 positive reviews from any of the following professional journals:Booklist (BL)Kirkus Review (KR)Publishers Weekl
Slide show of Banned Book Covers - could be used to highlight Banned Books, printed for a bulletin board, or used in conjunction with my Book Cover Bingo cards for a game that highlights Banned Books!Link to Google Slides version: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PxZ1vP2wyxehuS--rwkdAmavkQ151d9WAmiRHms-FtU/edit?usp=sharing
Set of 4 posters describing how fiction and nonfiction books are labeled with a call number & how to put books in order according to the call number.
Each label can be printed in the size you desire, cut, and laminated to be added to your classroom library. I have kept the titles that are currently in my own classroom library on the labels being sold.
Labels included:
Blank – for you to customize!
Book Return Bin
Extra Chapter Books
Poetry
Historical Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Animal Fiction
Adventure
Suspense
Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction Nature
Picture Books
The Land of Stories – Chris Colfer
Bone Series – Jeff Smith
Beverly Cleary – Ramona Ser
The Classroom Library Recommendation Cards are meant to help you make your classroom library more enticing for your readers. There are two sizes of recommendation cards included along with some templates for long display cards. I print these on bright paper and use these to hang off the shelves beneath the books. There are some example photos from my classroom below. I have found students are much more interested in books that are on display, especially when I take a moment at the beginning of