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Scholastic Book Fair
Supporting Families
• Ensure all families have access to books.
- Host public library card drives at school — ensure everyone has a public library card.
- Administer the Family Reading Survey (pages 39-40) available in English and Spanish.
- Send personal invitations to the Book Fair. Reproducible invitations in English and Spanish can be found by logging into the Chairperson’s Toolkit and accessing Fair Files: scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit (Note: This is only accessible to Book Fair chairpeople.)
• Ask families if they know their child’s reading tastes and reading level.
- Share the free Book Fair app which provides book recommendations, author videos, and podcasts:
scholastic.com/bookfairs/app
- Explain why daily reading is so powerful. Children spend 900 hours a year in school and 7,800 hours outside school, making reading at home critical to success.
- Share this research with families:
scholastic.com/readingreport
• Teach families to read aloud together on a daily basis.
- View and share this video from read-aloud expert Lester Laminack:
youtube.com/watch?v=QEI9wrmrB1o
• Share readingrockets.org with families.
Principals
• Share research: scholastic.com/readingreport
• Sign up for the Reader Leader blog: scholastic.com/bookfairs/readerleader
• Host a Scholastic Book Fairs family reading workshop during Book Fair week. These workshops support the power of daily reading practice at home, as well as innovative ways to ensure book access and ownership with no-cost resources in English and Spanish: scholastic.com/bookfairs/programs
• Support your Book Fair with booktalks, communications home to families, and family reading events.
• Host a Book Fair Preview with staff to increase knowledge of children’s literature and build home and classroom libraries.
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