Moderated by Aliza Werner, Professional Learning & Social Media Manager at Bookelicious. Contact with questions: alizaw@bookelicious.com

Book Club Meetings:

°  All three meetings take place on Tuesday evenings via Zoom
°  7:30p EST / 6:30p CST / 5:30p MST / 4:30p PST
°  Duration: 75 minutes

Session 1: June 18, 2024
Session 2: June 25, 2024
Session 3: July 2, 2024

Included in your registration fee:

°  One copy of “The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library”

°  Three live virtual sessions via Zoom – Join from the comfort of your home!
°  Interact directly with literacy experts Donalyn Miller, Colby Sharp, & Lynsey Burkins
°  Meet and network with fellow educators
°  Recording available only for registrants (one month expiration)
°  Live book giveaways
°  Discount codes for the Bookelicious online children’s bookshop
°  Professional Development Certificates available upon request (for educators who need to log hours for their districts or to maintain their license)

Secure your spot! Complete and submit the form below:

Registration fee: $40.00
Registration and Payment Deadline: Monday, May 20, 2024  @ 11:59p PST

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Please enjoy a special discount of 20% and free shipping on purchases of $25 or more using the code NAWALQAROONI25.

Picture Books
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Nawal Qarooni is a Jersey City-based educator, writer and adjunct professor who supports a holistic approach to literacy instruction and family experiences in schools across the country. Drawing on her work as an inquiry-based leader, mother of four, and proud daughter of immigrants, Nawal’s pedagogy is centered in the rich and authentic learning all families gift their children every day. She and her team of coaches at NQC Literacy work with schools and districts to collectively grow teacher practice and children’s literacy lives. She is the author of Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Exalting Home Experiences and Classroom Practices in Collective Care (Stenhouse/ Routledge December 2023). In addition, she is a member of the National Council for Teachers of English Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English; she evaluates manuscripts for Reese Witherspoon’s LitUp program, which platforms historically underrepresented voices in publishing; and she serves on the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Advisory Board, which funds powerful literacy programming across the country. Nawal holds a Bachelor of English from the University of Michigan, a Master of Teaching from Brooklyn College, and a Master of Journalism from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. She won a New Jersey Press Association Award for her international reporting and transitioned into education as a New York City Teaching Fellow. You can learn more about her and her work at NQCLiteracy.org.

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Loss
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Fear
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Mistakes
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Change
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Jealousy
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Picture Book Biography Collections

Learning about people who impact our world is compelling and empowering. The more people we encounter as we read, the more possibilities we see for how we can use our strengths to change the world. These picture books are collections of people who are history makers.  Each text is organized around a theme, topic, time in history or character trait.  It is important for young readers to read nonfiction literature within and beyond the content area curriculum. Students need to have choice in their nonfiction reading to nurture their curiosity and passions.  These texts are perfect for independent reading, partner reading, read-aloud, and book clubs!

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Clare Landrigan spent years serving as an educator and administrator in elementary public schools and is now a consultant partnering with school systems to implement best practices in the field of literacy. Clare is the coauthor of It’s All About the Books: How to Create Bookrooms and Classroom Libraries That Inspire Readers and Assessment in Perspective. She is on the board of The Book Love Foundation and leads the Book Love Summer Book Club. Clare blogs about books and the art of teaching on her website www.clarelandrigan.com and is co-authoring a book, The Possibilities of Poetry, with Aeriale Johnson in Fall 2024 (Stenhouse).

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JoEllen believes there is no tool more powerful than a picture book and sharing stories can promote a love of oneself, a love of learning, and through a heartprint framework reflect limitless possibilities for both! She demonstrates the ways we can layer our academic and affective standards using books as our coteachers for lessons in reading, writing, and life!

To invite conversations to do this work, you can check out her ever changing “unlist of books.” This will help to shift your thinking from that book… to books that….” because beyond the books, some of the most important lessons we can teach are often those led by children, stirred by a read aloud.

Books that Help Address All the Feels
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Books that Celebrate Reading & More
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Books that Teach Concepts While Celebrating Culture  & Community
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Books that Honor Families & More
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Books that Invite Conversations Around Hope and Healing
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JoEllen McCarthy is a lifelong learner, educator, and literacy specialist who spends her days teaching and learning alongside students, teachers, and administrators. As a literacy consultant and a Book Ambassador for The Educator Collaborative, she gets to spread her enthusiasm for literature through an exploration of powerful picture books that help layer reading and writing connections and nurture a more inclusive, responsive, caring community of learners. Learn more about her work in Layers of Learning: Using Read Alouds to Connect Literacy and Caring Conversations, connect with her via social media at @JoEllenMcCarthy, or visit her website.

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As part of Black History Month, our littles at SproutFive participated in NCTE’s African American Read-In. (Click here to Read More). On February 1, classrooms were given a basket of books to add to their classroom libraries. In the basket were books by four authors/illustrators we’d celebrate together during February–one author/illustrator per week. Our goals were to:

•  Celebrate books together as a community

•  Get to know authors we may not know

•  Share a variety of books in our classrooms

•  Add new books to our classroom libraries

•  Introduce littles, teachers and families to authors/titles that may be new-to-them

We chose four authors/illustrators and a few books by each of the them. We wanted to highlight both authors and illustrators, and we wanted books that would engage young readers in a variety of ways.

Our littles are just beginning to build their identities as readers. We know that conversions about authors and illustrators help young children begin to notice similarities in books, expect certain things in books, participate actively and develop tastes as readers.

For our month-long celebration, we wanted books that showed joy, celebrated everyday experiences and gave readers much to talk about in the illustrations. Like any great picture book, so much of each of these stories is told in the illustrations.

For our teachers and families, we hoped introducing them to a few authors would help them by inviting them to find other books by these authors.
Oge Mora and Anne Wynter were the author/illustrator team we celebrated for the first week of African American Read-In. Everybody in the Red Brick Building is a book that is meant to be read aloud, so we chose this one to begin. As young children follow the story, they’ll also want to join into the repeated sound effects and notice the interesting font changes. There is also so much to notice in the artwork. This is a great introduction to other books by both Oge Mora and Anne Wynter. Preschool classrooms also received the book Saturday by Oge Mora, and the two books together provide a great opportunity to start to talk to young readers about noticing similarities in illustrations.

For Week 2, we celebrated Christian Robinson with You Matter, Another, and Milo Imagines the World. Christian Robinson’s books speak to readers of all ages, and giving preschoolers a chance to enjoy the books and notice how much of a story can be told through the illustrations.

Nikki Grimes has a trio of books that we purchased for Week 3 of our celebration.
Off to See the Sea, Bedtime for Sweet Creatures, and Playtime for Restless Rascals are similar in their format, artwork and interesting font; young readers will naturally come to expect certain things from this “series” of books.

Art, Story and Music work together in C.G. Esperanza’s books. For our final week, classrooms received Soul Food Sunday and Boogie Boogie Y’All. Esperanza’s books are a celebration of families and communities. Children will definitely notice the feelings and expressions of the characters in Esperanza’s art.

We’re confident that getting to know these four authors will be a great experience for our littles. Over time, we hope to add more books by each of these authors (and others) to our preschool classroom libraries.

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At checkout, please use the coupon code DUBLIN2023 to receive 20% off, and ship your book(s) to:

(First Name) SproutFive
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Radford, VA 24141

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About SproutFive
At SproutFive, we believe every child deserves a holistic, high-quality early education. Our goal is to ensure that all children are given the opportunity to thrive during their first five years of life. With a century of history and a startup mindset, SproutFive is looking to position itself as a national leader and reimagine the field of early learning.

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Here are Jennifer’s top picks!

Picture Books 2024
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Middle Grade Fiction 2024
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Nonfiction — Elementary, Middle Grade and Up 2024
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Graphic Novels 2024
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Jennifer LaGarde is a lifelong teacher and learner with over 20 years in public education. Her educational passions include leveraging technology to help students develop authentic reading lives, meeting the unique needs of students living in poverty and helping learners (of all ages) discern fact from fiction in the information they consume. A huge fan of YA Literature, Jennifer currently lives, works, reads and drinks lots of coffee in Olympia, Washington. Follow her adventures at www.librarygirl.net or on Twitter @jenniferlagarde.

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