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A loyal dog helps his master turn sheep's wool into clouds. | After the Rain

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A free way to search for leveled books (and a great place to purchase books too).

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Booksource Classroom is a FREE, classroom library management tool that helps teachers inventory, manage and analyze their classroom libraries.

Powered by Booksource's robust title data, Booksource Classroom allows teachers to maintain an online inventory of their books, access title information and reading levels, monitor student reading habits, discover gaps in their classroom libraries and easily purchase titles to fill those gaps.

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Booksource Classroom is a FREE, classroom library management tool that helps teachers inventory, manage and analyze their classroom libraries. Powered by Booksource's robust title data, Booksource Classroom allows teachers to maintain an online inventory of their books, access title information and reading levels, monitor student reading habits, discover gaps in their classroom libraries and easily purchase titles to fill those gaps.

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My last resort . . .

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Book Wizard: Find and Level Books for Your Classroom | Scholastic

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Level your classroom library, create book lists, and find the right book at just the right reading level for students with Book Wizard.

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For writing your own mini lessons:)

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A great site for checking out the age appropriateness of material:)

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Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families

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Common Sense Media is the leading source of entertainment and technology recommendations for families. Parents trust our expert reviews and objective advice.

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This guide supports TCRWP classroom library picks and can be purchased separately.

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A Guide to the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Classroom Libraries: Intermediate Grades

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This Guide to the TCRWP Classroom Libraries, Grades 3-5 will help orient you and your students to your new Library, provide guidance on how to organize

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Also Check Out Conferring Toolkit-Spring 2018

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A Tool for Supporting Moving Readers Up Levels - 09.13.2021.pdf

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A Guide to the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Classroom Libraries: Middle School Grades

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This Guide to the TCRWP Classwoom Libraries, Grades 6-8 will help orient you and your students to your new Library, provide guidance on how to organize

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Teaching Tools | Resources for Teachers from Scholastic

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Library Book Bins from Lakeshore Learning (about $5 each)

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Library Book Bins from Lakeshore Learning (about $5 each)

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Keep books of all sizes organized and accessible with our versatile book bins! The sturdy plastic bins are sized just right for a variety of classroom books: Facing one direction, they're big enough for picture books...turn them the other way, and they're perfectly sized for smaller paperbacks.

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Using a Learning Progression/Learning Continuum) (TCRWP)

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Using a Learning Progression/Learning Continuum) (TCRWP)

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Using a Learning Progression to Support Self-Assessment and Writing about Themes in Literature: Small Group Work (3-5)

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project present Using a Learning Progression to Support Self-Assessment and Writing about Themes in Literature: Small Group (3-5)

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These libraries are awesome if a) you have a large chunk of money to spend or b) are looking for new titles and series you haven't previously invested in:)

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues Units of Study

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Home / Our Series - Classroom Libraries

Kids who have access to great books become readers. There is simply nothing that makes teaching reading easier, that gets kids reading with tremendous volume, or that lifts reading skills higher than a collection of truly fabulous books.

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has developed state-of-the-art classroom libraries for each grade level, K-8. Curated by Lucy Calkins and TCRWP colleagues along with a team of literacy leaders and children's literature experts, these libraries contain 400-700 leveled books at each grade level-all organized into collections and shelves based on level, genre, topic, and available in versions for students reading both at and below benchmark.

About the TCRWP Classroom Libraries

As the TCRWP team worked to develop these libraries, several key ideas guided the selection process:

The libraries aim to introduce as many authors and titles as possible, with books selected for high interest, richness (books that can be mined again and again), and quality of writing and content.

The libraries include some all-star classics, but also many of the newest cutting-edge titles.

To ensure all students have access to high-quality, high-interest books, libraries for students reading significantly below benchmark are available for grades 1-8.

A helpful Guide (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) and a set of grade-specific tools help teachers organize the books and make them inviting and accessible to children.

A Note About the Middle School Upper-Grade Libraries: Please know that the titles in the TCRWP Classroom Libraries were evaluated and recommended by educators and librarians from across the country and around the world, and reviewed and vetted by the country's leading experts in children's literacy and literature. Titles were chosen for their high-interest topics, rich literary qualities, and strong potential to develop critical thinking. Because the upper-grades libraries include many contemporary YA titles, some of the fiction titles contain very strong language, themes involving death, coming of age (including sexual themes), peer pressure, and similar mature content. We believe the literary merit of these titles warrants their inclusion in our libraries. To ensure your students are exploring content that matches what you understand to be their social and emotional development, you may wish to review titles before introducing them to students. Please note that substitute titles are not available.
Please note: TCRWP Classroom Libraries are not available for sale or distribution outside of the U.S.

For more information, download the TCRWP Classroom Libraries catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

The following videos and links to other resources contain responses from Lucy and her TCRWP colleagues addressing key frequently asked questions. Watch the videos below to see what Lucy has to say about these special libraries and learn how best to use the libraries to create successful, lifelong readers.

Overview

Download the Libraries Overview

Curation Process

Meeting the Needs of All Learners

Reading Levels

Download the Shelf-by-Shelf Reading Levels, K-8
Download the Additional Shelf Reading Levels

Tools for Management and Student Engagement

Tips for Building Your Library

Choosing Library Shelves: Starting Points, What to Consider Next, and Shelves Aligned to Units of Study

Tools and Resources

Included with each complete library or available for separate purchase (with a minimum of two Individual Library Shelves) are box sets of TCRWP Tools and Resources. These invaluable resources will help you use your library more effectively to lift the level of student achievement and engage kids.

Each grade-level Tools and Resources pack includes:

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Teacher's College and Lucy Calkins Classroom Libraries

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Home / Our Series - Classroom Libraries Kids who have access to great books become readers. There is simply nothing that makes teaching reading easier, that gets kids reading with tremendous volume, or that lifts reading skills higher than a collection of truly fabulous books.

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Series Books

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Booksource
Pre-curated Collections and a great FREE site for leveling.:)

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Use the Reading Recovery book list to diversify your publishers and get a more accurate representation of levels.
Pioneer Valley
Mary Ruth Books
Reading Reading
Blueberry Hill
Okapi
Gareth Stevens/ Rosen (always get a quote first to save $$$$)

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Resources for Educators

In addition to the books and tools, we are also committed to supporting educators after they purchase our products. We offer many free resources to enhance the classroom experience and for educators to save time in the classroom. We also offer in house consulting to support your efforts.

Our unique, guided reading system for classroom teachers, intervention teachers and reading specialists.

Why Pioneer Valley Books

We are an innovative company dedicated to providing engaging stories and teaching materials that help children to develop strong literacy skills and a love of reading.

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Pioneer Valley Books - Learn to Read, Guided Reading, Common Core

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Resources for Educators In addition to the books and tools, we are also committed to supporting educators after they purchase our products. We offer many free resources to enhance the classroom experience and for educators to save time in the classroom. We also offer in house consulting to support your efforts.

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Lower Elementary Partnership Small Group-Writing 

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Lower Elementary Partnership Small Group-Writing 

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Using a Strategy Group to Support Writers

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One of the hardest things about writing is-getting started! For many of our students, drawing and talking about their drawings is just what they need to cross the barrier from a blank page to page filled with their words.

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Quick Guide: Components and "Sounds like"

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Alternative Mini Lesson Planning Template (only available as a PDF-sorry)

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Alternative Mini Lesson Planning Template (only available as a PDF-sorry)

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These are from the MS units of study for Reading:)

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This one costs $25.00 a year but is worth every penny.

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My last resort . . .

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Book Wizard: Find and Level Books for Your Classroom | Scholastic

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Level your classroom library, create book lists, and find the right book at just the right reading level for students with Book Wizard.

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GREAT to compare and contrast with Joy and Heron! (Also on this page.)

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The Fox and the Bird - CGI short film by Fred and Sam Guillaume

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Character arc

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CGI Animated Short Film "Joy and Heron" by Passion Pictures | CGMeetup

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Placemats to plan your book club convos. 

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Placemats to plan your book club convos. 

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Using a Learning Progression to Help Students Lift the Level of their Summaries of Information Texts (3-5)

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project present Using a Learning Progression to Help Students Work Towards Clear Goals as they Lift the Level of Their Summaries of Information Texts (3-5)

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Number your paper from 1-20 in 1 minute how many words can you figure out?

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Do you want to make any changes?

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Changes?

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No comprehension strategy powerful enough to compensate the inability to not being able to read the words. Children cannot just use background knowledge and context.
Children need to pay attention to the phoneme/grapheme association. When children can't read with at least 95% accuracy ideally 98% Even for adults with background knowledge of gardens it was difficult for us.

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Historical Fiction Clubs (Tips for Teachers)

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Dictation guide for creating graphic novels

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Dictation guide for creating graphic novels

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Informational progression chart

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Leveled bands cards on rings for independent reading

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Conferring cards

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Goal setting

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Introduction rubric

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Text complexity cards to support comprehension 

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Text complexity cards to support comprehension 

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Bands of Text Complexity - K-Z - Illustrated Cards with Teacher Letter - 06.11.21 (2)

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You can access some of the books digitally for free.

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Remembering the day that my son, Nate, sneaked Magic Belt books still brings tears to my eyes. Before Magic Belt, the only books that I could find for my son to read narrated the mundane adventures of a rat or a cat with a hat ... He became a book lover because of Magic Belt, so those books are very special to me and worth every penny!

McAfee Reading and Spelling Company

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Phonic Books - Decodable Books for Beginner and Struggling Readers

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Remembering the day that my son, Nate, sneaked Magic Belt books still brings tears to my eyes. Before Magic Belt, the only books that I could find for my son to read narrated the mundane adventures of a rat or a cat with a hat ...

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Sticky notes used for research w/ video

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Add on using timeline/ map

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Have kids organize and write paragraphs