It’s almost time for one of our favorite annual events—the ALA Awards! Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) honors the best books for children and teens with prestigious awards like the Newbery and Caldecott, and our Collection Development experts try to predict the winners before they are announced! Here are their top title picks, […]
Throughout this year’s book awards season, keep track of how some of Booksource’s favorite titles are doing with our handy Awards Season Tracker! Revisit this link for the latest finalists and winner announcements.
American Library Association Youth Media Awards
Newbery Medal
New Kid by Jerry Craft, illus. by Jerry Craftget it for your classroomsee the Newbery Honor books
Caldecott […]
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They say New Orleans is where you go to “laissez les bon temps rouler” and the recent weekend we spent at the ILA 2019 Conference was no exception!
Booksource arrived at Booth #227 with one goal in mind: to help showcase that books can take you to some amazing places. In order to accomplish this, we […]
Back to school season brought fun new developments to Booksource from an exciting update to Booksource Classroom to our Starting and Refreshing a Classroom Library webinars. But perhaps the defining moment came from a group of students in Massachusetts who encapsulate all that Booksource is about.
In an effort to help teachers improve what we believe […]
Thanks to teacher Ashleigh Rose for sharing her classroom library refresh with us! This is the fourth and final post in her series. Start reading the first three here!
The results to the change we made in our library were overwhelmingly positive. Below, I will share a few major outcomes.
1. The library became a built-in book […]
Thanks to teacher, Ashleigh Rose, for sharing her classroom library refresh with us! This is third post in her series. To see how and why she got started, be sure to read her first two posts, Part 1: Why My Kids “Couldn’t” Find Any Good Books in Our Classroom Library and Part 2: How to […]
This is the second post in a series on classroom library organization by middle school literacy teacher, Ashleigh Rose. If you missed it, be sure to read her first post, Why My Kids “Couldn’t Find Any Good Books” In Our Classroom Library and How We Flipped the Script Together.
After finally deciding my classroom library needed […]
Thanks to teacher Ashleigh Rose for sharing her classroom library refresh with us! Keep reading to see WHY she decided her classroom library organization wasn’t working, and then read the rest of the posts in this series to learn what changes she made and how you can make similar changes in your classroom.
“Ms. Rose, you don’t […]
Fifth grade English Language Arts teacher Nicole Mancini uses Booksource Classroom to manage her classroom library. See how this free tool helps her organize and keep track of her books!
One of the most daunting tasks for any teacher is managing a well-built classroom library. Educators know that having a wide variety of books is key […]
