Promote access to TeachingBooks resources

• Embed new widgets into your digital spaces

• Enrich Google searches with literary connections by adding the Chrome extension to school computers!

• Add buttons on your web pages to make TeachingBooks accessible.

Make your space interactive with QR code printables:

• Decorate your classroom or library with shelf talkers! Explore our Book Trailers Collection and Complete Meet-the-Author & Illustrator Collection for resources to feature.

• Label your bookshelves or book baskets with new shelf cards for author pages, that link to all the resources for titles by each author!

• Copy and paste QR codes for resources into your own slideshows

Plan a get-to-know-each-other activity using Author Name Pronunciations!

• Try out the Author Name Game or choose your own from the Author & Illustrator Pronunciation Guide to share with your students as models, then have students write and share out loud about their own names.

Incorporate Book Guides, Activities, & Lessons into your plans!

• Print out some picture book activity kits for younger students to enjoy!

• Find discussion questions that inspire reflection in book guides.

• Differentiate and scaffold instruction with customizable Multi-Leveled Lessons

Easily create or upload your own Custom Lists to use and share:

• Embed class lists of texts for the year or semester into your digital spaces for easy access to supporting resources.

• Print bookmarks or flyers that link to your lists and related resources to share with families at Family Night.

• Organize titles and resources by creating custom lists for your units.

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BONUS Activities

For Younger Students

• Start the year off with a laugh by watching this video book trailer for The Pigeon Has to Go to School! Then share these activity sheets with your students.

• Play an ice-breaker dice game, or draw portraits of your school with the activity kit for School’s First Day of School.

• Find the complete book reading and a fun friendship craft for We Don’t Eat Our Classmates on this page, then color and play games with these activity sheets.

• Inspire student connection as you embark on a new year’s journey together with this video book reading of Our Class is a Family.

• Brainstorm together a list of important things to learn the first week of school, after watching the complete book reading of How to Get Your Teacher Ready.

• Find some titles to read aloud the first week of school from these curated thematic lists:

  • Are You Ready? School's Open!
  • Back-to-School Stories
  • New Year, New Books: It's Back to School

For Older Students

• Prompt student participation and leadership by compiling their recommendations for books they read over the summer into a list, then create bookmarks to share. Now students can explore recommendations from their peers!

• Have students create lists of what they would like to learn before they finish high school, then encourage exploration on TeachingBooks to find some resources that might match their interests.

• Encourage students to use TeachingBooks to do an author study for authors of books you will be teaching this year: listen to Name Pronunciations, Meet-the-Author recordings, and interviews, then create posters for each author to display and incorporate QR code author cards.

• Explore games to ease into the school year together.

• Direct students to the Reader’s Advisory page to help them find their next independent read.