NEW: Diverse Books Toolkit

Want to dive deeply into diversity and inclusion? Check out TeachingBooks' new Diverse Books Toolkit.

• Identify exceptional diverse books
• Bring culture and race to the forefront of literary conversations
• Learn the inspiration behind books directly from the author or illustrator
• Generate reports that examine cultural inclusion in your collections
• Facilitate student reflection on the cultural representation in the books each student reads

We hope these tools help you infuse diverse, inclusive, and culturally relevant materials into your fiction and nonfiction reading experiences.

Email me. I'd love to know your thoughts.

Nick Glass, TeachingBooks Founder & Executive Director
nick@TeachingBooks.net

NEW: Hands-free Book Browsing

How are your students selecting books in this age of COVID-19 when shelf-browsing is often restricted? In response to this concern, TeachingBooks has three tools to help students browse and discover books—hands-free!

1: Hands-free Book Browsing: Audiobook excerpts and accessible chapters or passages of books that allow readers to get to know a book without physically having it in their hands.

2: Bitmoji Virtual Classrooms, Libraries, and Bulletin Boards: Provide a welcoming and inclusive virtual learning environment with these templates that are ready to copy, customize, and use.

3: Reader's Advisory: These tools assist in identifying books that match students' interests and needs.

Watch our newest video: Touchless Book Choosing with TeachingBooks

Raul Colon on Child of the Universe

Artist and illustrator Raul Colon joins our virtual tour to share a behind-the-scenes look at the artwork in the new picture book, Child of the Universe (Random House, 2020).

Featured Booklist: #OwnVoices Young Adult Literature

Diversify your reading list for the 2020-2021 school year with these #ownvoices stories, selected by the Portland Public Library. The #ownvoices hashtag, created by Corinne Duyvis, centers the experiences of marginalized people by promoting stories about characters with marginalized identities written by authors who share those same identities.

Listen In with Matthew Winner & The Children's Book Podcast

Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan are co-authors of A Place at the Table (Clarion, 2020). This new middle grade novel in two voices examines the growing awareness of self-identity as we enter middle school. As Saadia and Laura note in this conversation, so many kids want to stand up for what they believe is right, but don't know how. This story is one answer to that question.

Meet-the-Author Recording: Drum Dream Girl with Rafael Lopez

Music plays such an important part in our lives, and for Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a young girl in 1920s Cuba, it was her life's dream. Join Illustrator Rafael Lopez as he shares his personal connection with Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) written by Margarita Engle.

Differentiate with Multi-leveled Lessons

Did you know that TeachingBooks designed multi-leveled lessons to scaffold literacy instruction in your differentiated classroom? Join this webinar to learn more.

• Flexible enough to use for a whole-class read
• Provides inclusive experiences with reading assignments at differentiated levels
• Embraces independent choice and varied learning targets

Contests & Giveaways

Check out our September Contests & Giveaways, accompanied by multimedia resources!

• Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina (Candlewick, 2020)
• Nacho's Nachos by Sandra Nickel (Lee & Low, 2020)
• Like Spilled Water by Jennie Liu (Lerner, 2020)
• The Truth about Dragons by Jamie Zollars (Little, Brown, 2020)
• Pine Island Home by Polly Horvath (Holiday House, 2020)

See the September Contests & Giveaways on our blog.

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