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We spend some time each semester watching trailers, author videos or book talks about new books.

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I spend the first several weeks of the year booktalking the Iowa Children's Choice Award nominees (usually 3 or 4 per week).

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TL & Classroom Teachers post what they are currently reading (and listening to, if applicable) in doorways. Leads to lots of great conversations between teachers and students.

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New book talks and promoting ICC and Goldfinch award books

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New book talks and promoting ICC and Goldfinch award books

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We are going to try a Shelfie selfie with a book review.  We will start with teachers and then let the students add to this - then these books will be put in a prominent place on display.

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We are going to try a Shelfie selfie with a book review.  We will start with teachers and then let the students add to this - then these books will be put in a prominent place on display.

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We watch the ICC book trailers and then students will create their own to promote books they liked.

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Book exchange between students

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Iowa Children's Choice books and Iowa Goldfinch award books

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Iowa Children's Choice books and Iowa Goldfinch award books

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There are brackets and the students try to guess the most popular book in our collection.

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Mini reviews by students
Lists of what I have read aloud to different classes

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The 5th grade ELA teacher ,  Lit Coach,  and librarian  each lunch with 5th graders once a week in the library and discuss a book we think may win this year's Mock Newbery Award.  We vote for our favorite book and then watch the Mock Newbery Award live.  It's like the Oscars on our campus.

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Each year we have a district-wide author visit, funded by our Foundation and Hills Bank. The grade level rotates between K-2 (Bryan Collier this year!), 3-4 (Candace Fleming last year), and 5-6 (Delia Ray two years ago). Each child will see at least one of these authors while in elementary school. The summer before the author visits, a team of TLs writes a curriculum based on several of the author's books. The TL and classroom teachers prepare the students using this curriculum, so that when the author arrives, s/he speaks to audiences of students who know a lot about that person's life and books. The authors are always impressed with how prepared the students are!