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Over 300 students participated in a contest to disguise a turkey as a book character. The top 40 turkeys were posted on the school Facebook page for the community to vote on the winner. That student won lunch of his choice from a local restaurant.
ESE enrichment lessons to support their class novels, such as New Kid
Follett Book Fair focused on reading with maker space STEAM station integration
Over the course of 3 days, over 300 students (our Reading students and our Gifted & Advanced students) got to read a "latte" and designed coffee mugs based on a book they've been reading and then read by a (virtual) fire while they enjoyed hot chocolate provided by WaWa.
All Reading students started the school year in the Media Center and got to speed date all the best titles our collection has to offer. Even our Principal joined in and built his reading list for the year.
During Banned Book Week our students learned about their right to read, censorship, frequently banned books, and we book talked Property of the Rebel Librarian. All the students received signed book marks from Allison Varnes, author of the book.
Our school is an official Project Lit School and has been part of this national movement for two years.
Each month our students select 3-5 diverse titles to read from the Project Lit reading list and then we meet as a club during 7th mod and the students lead book club with discussion, Kahoot, and decide what to read next. We are also in process of a community book drive to place books in little free libraries across the community.
Literacy Week is run through the Media Center and we fill the week with literature appreciation activities. There are morning trivia contests (winning class each day gets breakfast!), character dress up contests, mystery outdoor reading locations, a trip next door to read to Kindergarten students, and an epic door decorating contest.
Our top 20 student readers and top 5 teacher readers had the opportunity to eat lunch with the Superintendent of Brevard Public Schools and our School Board Representative. Our students read their way in and then talked books and 20 Book Challenge over lunch with our District leaders.
To provide full-time access to students learning from home, students learning in person, and students who may be quarantined or ill, I created a virtual library where students have everything they need. It is constantly updated and new content is added regularly. Items are added based on student request, teacher request, based on the focus for that time, or as new resources become available. Each item can be clicked on to take them to that resource or get them to the page they need to navigate to.
As a way to continue to grow the love of reading for our students, I created a digital version of our book tastings that we would normally do with classes. Each slide focuses on a different title for our Project Lit Book Club. All of our book club students and our two Advanced Reading Classes accessed this and used the resources available to choose which titles they'd like to use first. This was a safe way to have a "hands on" book tasting and our eLearners did not miss out.