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School Libraries

Bookshelves and study carrels? Digital learning commons? Or something in between? Discover how educators are using and reimagining their school libraries.

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  • Expanding Your School’s Nonfiction Collection

    Elementary through high school students are eager for nonfiction. Here’s how to find the books they’ll want to read.
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  • Setting Up Libraries to Be the Best Space in School

    We took a peek inside school libraries across America to see how librarians are reframing the space to support students’ social, emotional, and creative growth—while still prioritizing excellent reads.
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  • How Audiobooks Help Emerging Readers and Inspire a Love of Books

    Audiobooks allow students to enjoy books above their reading level, introducing them to engaging stories that will hook them for life.
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  • Building a 21st-Century Learning Space

    A community raised $6 million to construct an innovative 30,000-square-foot facility complete with makerspaces and learning labs.
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  • A School-Wide Focus on Choice Reading

    When the staff at an elementary school made fostering a love of reading a priority, they used these strategies to meet their goal.
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  • Schoolwide Strategies for Promoting a Love of Reading

    A literacy consultant explains how schools can encourage all students to share the joy of reading.
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  • A Simple Way to Encourage Students to Read More Broadly

    When students experiment with ways of classifying books beyond reading levels, they may feel liberated from strict ideas about what they should be reading.
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  • Boosting Students’ Literacy Skills With Help From the School Librarian

    Teachers in every content area can build partnerships with the school librarian to support students’ academic literacy across the curriculum.
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  • Getting Books Into Every Student’s Hands

    At this school, nurturing a love of reading begins with book shopping, a practice where students choose books from their classroom libraries to bring home—every week.
  • 3 Key Roles of School Librarians

    While no one can take the place of school librarians, teachers can support students’ literacy skills by understanding librarians’ roles.
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  • Collaborating With Your School Librarian

    Ten ways to work with your highly trained colleagues in the library to enhance literacy instruction.
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  • Grace Lin on Giving Young Readers a ‘Sense of Home’

    The award-winning children’s book author on stories that are like friends you can turn to—and the importance of featuring characters who “share a common thread of humanity.” 
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  • A Fun Way to Engage Students’ Minds and Bodies With Books

    StoryWalks encourage collaboration and reflection, and transform the often sedentary act of reading into a dynamic, interactive activity.
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  • 21st-Century Libraries: The Learning Commons

    Libraries become a different kind of learning destination when schools reimagine them as open, transparent spaces that invite student communication and collaboration.
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  • A Field Trip With Lifelong Benefits

    High school teachers should consider the many benefits of taking students to a local public or academic library.
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