Summit_Guidebook

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR 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.

- 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:

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:

- 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:

• Teach families to share family read-alouds on a daily basis.

- Jim Trelease offers many no-cost resources. Check out:

brochure.pdf

Principals

• Ensure daily independent reading time in the classroom and at home (see resources in teacher section).

• Sign up for the Reader Leader blog:

• Administer the free Family Reading Survey (pages 90-91) to benchmark your current state.

• 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:

• Host a Summer Reading Book Fair.

- Share the research of Dr. Richard Allington:

• Learn from a peer: Keeping Students Reading Over the Summer:

leader/top-10-ways-principal-can-ensure-students-read-over-summer

• Host a Book Fair preview with staff to increase knowledge of children’s literature and build home and

classroom libraries.

Scholastic Book Fair