When I discovered I was teaching Young Adult Literature as one of my classes this year, I was thrilled. One of my reasons for becoming an English teacher was...
Tag - Classroom Library
The English classroom should be a welcoming place of acceptance and opportunity. The types of books available in a classroom library help set the tone of...
I thought I had a lot of books coming into my first year of teaching. However, after eagerly assembling them on the single shelf in my classroom, I stepped...
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been collecting books for your classroom library for a long time. I started when I was a freshman in high...
My goal as an English teacher has always been to foster critical thinking skills and create lifelong readers—individuals who will continue to read outside of...
On many classroom bookshelves, the characters that sit between the pages of books mirror a handful of prescribed personas; the wise man reflecting on his past...
As a middle school Language Arts teacher in a predominantly low income and low performing school district, I am often met with a sense of urgency in igniting a...
I was ecstatic when I learned that I had received the Sigma Tau Delta Classroom Library Grant in 2020. In a year that felt like a complete roller coaster it...
Classroom Library Grant applications are being accepted now through August 9, 2021, and are available to help members of Sigma Tau Delta who have been teaching...
At the end of the last school year, I was faced with a rather large dilemma that boiled down to two questions: What do I want to cover? And how am I going to...