One of the biggest challenges for a new teacher (or a teacher moving grade levels) can be building up your classroom library. It’s so important to have a robust selection of books for your students but that doesn’t mean you need to break the bank to do it! Here are 10 ways to build your…
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20 Awesome Books for the First Week of School
When I’m creating my first week of school plans, I always make time for several read aloud books every day. Reading aloud picture books is a great way to: take a break from procedures and routines introduce ideas of friendship, community, rules, and more model fluent reading bond as a class over the shared experience…
More Halloween Books We Love
Try as we may, we just can’t get enough of seasonal books. Do you have the same seasonal-book-buying affliction? One of the ways I love using seasonal books is in a daily countdown to the holiday. Here’s how we count down to Halloween with a spooky read every day! We already have a post about…
Top 5 Twelve Days of Christmas Reads
Around here at Second Story Window, there’s not much we love more than Christmas picture books! Today we’re sharing some of our favorite versions of the 12 days of Christmas. Our other Christmas books posts have narrowed our recommendations down to our top 5, but there are just too many good ones for the…
Why I Read Magic Treehouse to My Students
When I was in 2nd grade, Mrs. Green read aloud to us every day. It was one of my favorite parts of the day. I fell in love with books because of that time. My first favorite was a book she read us (this post contains affiliate links): A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I…