Book care

Teach students how to treat your books respectfully with clear classroom library expectations! Help your students grow in their love of reading!

Teach kindergarten and first grade students how to take care of classroom and library book with my new post about teaching book care rules!

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Tips, lessons and printables to make library book care lessons easier and fun! No-prep ideas for back-to-school book lessons for Kindergarten, Grade 1 and 2.

This past March, I posted a blog about a series of books about a cat named Chester who comes to visit the library and ends up learning what to do in a library, book care, and the types of books that can be found inside the library. I originally purchased these three books from... Read more

Do your students have trouble taking care of their classroom library or school library books? Need a way to review book care with them? This freebie is for you! Just click here to hop on over to my blog and find out how I teach about book care and grab your freebie. See you soon! ... Read More about Book Care

I’ve posted a lot about teaching book care with the younger grades, and while I like to use the same poster board set to introduce the idea of book care ( you can read about that activity here), I wanted to use different books with each grade level. This year for... Read more

Browse Caring for books anchor chart resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.

I have been busy this week getting ready to do workshops at our county's New Teacher Orientation, so I've only gotten 4 chart ideas don...

This post is for librarians and all of you unlucky parents trapped at home with your restless kiddos on another snow day. I am on my third snow day this week!! Craziness! And while I'm adapting quickly to my blissful new hermit status at home drinking herbal tea, watching Hulu, and baking cookies... I doubt the parents of my students are enjoying this... This Adele parody video is a perfect expression of how I feel about snow days as an elementary librarian. Every line rings true for me…