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Book Cover for: The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library: Building a Collection That Inspires, Engages, and Challenges Readers, Donalyn Miller

The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library: Building a Collection That Inspires, Engages, and Challenges Readers

Donalyn Miller

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Literacy advocates Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp follow the lifecycle of Sharp's classroom library across the year, showing us practical ways to support young reader--from weeding the collection before kids arrive and to matching them with books they want to read, to evaluating and supporting their growth as they become increasingly independent readers.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Scholastic Professional
  • Publish Date: Sep 12nd, 2022
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.97in - 7.41in - 0.32in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9781338775181
  • Categories: • Teaching - Subjects - Language Arts• Professional Development• Teaching - Subjects - Reading & Phonics

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About the Author

DONALYN MILLER is an award-winning Texas teacher and independent reading advocate. She is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles about engaging young people with reading, including most recently The Joy of Reading, coauthored with Teri S. Lesesne, and Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids, coauthored with Colby Sharp. She is cofounder of the Nerdy Book Club and founder of #bookaday.

COLBY SHARP, a fifth-grade teacher at Parma Elementary School in Parma, Michigan, is cofounder of Nerd Camp and the Nerdy Book Club, and coauthor of Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids with Donalyn Miller. He is also the editor of The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection.

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John Schu is a children's book author and librarian.

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