Help me give my students a classroom library full of beautiful read-to-me books they will love!
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
My school was initially created by a group of parents unhappy with the public school options in their neighborhood. We strive to maintain a racial, ethnic, and economic mix because we believe integration and equal access benefit everyone. It is now part of a diversity pilot project in NYC and remains committed to making progressive education accessible to all.
This year, I will be teaching first grade for the first time.
My 24 first-graders are a unique cohort because many of them have not been in a school building for the last year and a half. They will be learning the ABCs at the same time they are learning how to be in school. All the kids returning to classrooms this fall will present a wide range of developmental needs, and I want my classroom to be flexible enough to meet them where they're at!
My Project
Something has gone awry in the classroom library I inherited. Most of the picture books have been in the building longer than I have! They are in... good condition, with nary a tare or a missing page. That's a bad sign in a classroom lending library. Our book baskets are full of left-behind books, worthy but unappealing titles that children did not want to take home, misplace, love, and read until they fell apart or disappeared.
We need a library full of books that beg to be borrowed.
Books with illustrations and storylines that remind the kids of their own families and neighborhoods. Books that make them laugh out loud, even on the fifth re-reading. Books that tempt them into the magical worlds of literature, of nonfiction, of poetry.
The titles I have selected are what I call "read-to-me" books for beginning first graders. The text is too complex for them to manage on their own, and that's okay! I have plenty of decodable books to help them develop their phonics skills. What we need now are books for them to curl up with and enjoy alongside a grownup. These toothsome titles will be part of our nightly book-borrowing routine so that every child has the opportunity to go home with books they are excited to read.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
A Little SPOT of Emotion 8 Book Box Set (Books 1-8: Anger, Anxiety, Peaceful, Happiness, Sadness, Confidence, Love, & Scribble Emotion)
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$53.59
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$53.59
A Little SPOT of Life Skills 8 Book Box Set (Books 17-24: Courage, Perseverance, Teamwork, Talent, Thankful, Optimism, Creativity, & Giving)
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$40.00
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$40.00
The People Remember
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$16.99
2
$33.98
In the Garden
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$22.97
1
$22.97
On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty (The World Around Us, 1)
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$19.95
1
$19.95
Tuesday (Caldecott Medal Book) (Caldecott Honor Book)
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$18.99
1
$18.99
Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao
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$17.99
1
$17.99
The Proudest Color
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$17.99
1
$17.99
How Old Am I?: 1–100 Faces From Around The World
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$17.59
1
$17.59
Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon
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$17.29
1
$17.29
Anemone is not the Enemy
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$16.99
1
$16.99
Chickenology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia (The Farm Animal Series)
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$16.99
1
$16.99
If You Come to Earth
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$16.99
1
$16.99
Unicorn and Yeti Books Set 1-3
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$16.99
1
$16.99
Scribble Stones
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$16.19
1
$16.19
Be a Maker
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$16.19
1
$16.19
Backyard Fairies
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$16.19
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$16.19
Bodies Are Cool
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$16.19
1
$16.19
A Girl Like You
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$15.99
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$15.99
Maddi's Fridge
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$15.95
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$15.95
Memory Jars
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$15.89
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$15.89
Children Just Like Me: A new celebration of children around the world
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$15.63
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$15.63
A Child Through Time: The Book of Children's History
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$15.59
1
$15.59
The Smart Cookie (The Food Group)
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$15.49
1
$15.49
The Leaf Thief: (The Perfect Fall Book for Children and Toddlers)
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$15.49
1
$15.49
The Barnabus Project
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$15.49
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$15.49
Birdsong
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$15.30
1
$15.30
Home Is in Between
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$15.10
1
$15.10
I See You
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$15.00
1
$15.00
I See You
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$15.00
1
$15.00
The Whatifs
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$14.99
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$14.99
Laxmi's Mooch
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$14.99
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$14.99
Tomatoes for Neela
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$14.99
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$14.99
Trying
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$14.95
1
$14.95
Thank You, Omu!
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$14.89
1
$14.89
The Very Last Leaf
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$14.89
1
$14.89
Ohana Means Family
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$14.79
1
$14.79
I Talk Like a River
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$14.57
1
$14.57
The Little Kitten (My Little Animal Friend)
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$14.39
1
$14.39
The Little Kitten (My Little Animal Friend)
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$14.39
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$14.39
We Are Water Protectors
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$14.38
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$14.38
The Rabbit Listened
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$14.29
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$14.29
Jabari Tries
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$14.29
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$14.29
Sweep
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$14.29
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$14.29
Strictly No Elephants
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$13.99
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$13.99
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt: (Spring Books for Kids, Gardening for Kids, Preschool Science Books, Children's Nature Books)
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$13.80
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$13.80
Outside In
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$13.79
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$13.79
Tiny, Perfect Things
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$13.79
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$13.79
Stumpkin
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$13.79
1
$13.79
The Color Monster Goes to School
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$13.67
1
$13.67
The Hike: (Nature Book for Kids, Outdoors-Themed Picture Book for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners)
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$13.60
1
$13.60
Saturday
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$13.59
1
$13.59
A Boy Like You
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$13.50
1
$13.50
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Irma S and James H Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Awards))
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$13.49
1
$13.49
Surf's Up!: An Acorn Book (Moby Shinobi and Toby Too!)
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$4.49
3
$13.47
Leif and the Fall
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$13.37
1
$13.37
The Couch Potato
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$13.28
1
$13.28
Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear
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$13.28
1
$13.28
Hair Twins
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$13.10
1
$13.10
I Am Courage: A Book of Resilience (I Am Books)
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$12.99
1
$12.99
The Fort
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$12.99
1
$12.99
Pig the Monster (Pig the Pug)
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$12.99
1
$12.99
Today I'm a Monster
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$12.95
1
$12.95
Zonia's Rain Forest
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$12.69
1
$12.69
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
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Thunder Boy Jr. (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
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$12.49
1
$12.49
Swashby and the Sea
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$12.40
1
$12.40
I Am One: A Book of Action (I Am Books)
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$12.25
1
$12.25
A Walk in the Forest: (ages 3-6, hiking and nature walk children's picture book encouraging exploration, curiosity, and independent play)
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$12.19
1
$12.19
What Happened to You?
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$12.03
1
$12.03
Hello Lighthouse
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$11.99
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$11.99
You Matter
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$11.99
1
$11.99
Truman
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$11.99
1
$11.99
Who Is the Mystery Reader? (An Unlimited Squirrels Book)
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$11.99
1
$11.99
A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World
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$11.93
1
$11.93
Nana in the City
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$11.89
1
$11.89
How to Write a Story: (Read-Aloud Book, Learn to Read and Write)
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