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Big change!
By Ms. Teacher#1

I have a pretty large class library with tons of picture books and chapter books. But by mid year I noticed that my students were losing interest in reading- ex. abandoning books more often and not choosing to do reading
on their free time. So I changed my library around, advertise some great award winning book, and invested in tons of R.L. Stine books, Babysitter and little sister's club, Amber Brown, Cam Jensen, Marc Brown's Arthur, sports series #1, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Chronicles of Narnia, Boxcar Children, several children's magazines including Sports Illustrated for Kids, and even...

Scooby Doo :o. I thought about my goals for my students. My goal is to develop the love of reading so that when they leave my classroom, reading will become apart of their lives.

When I brought these books in, the class was buzzing and excited-I had to create a waiting list for these books and the list is several pages long now. the kids are asking to take the books to recess and are reading them any free time they have.

Here is a portion of my library.