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I buy a lot of books because the books that are provided in my classroom library are really outdated — nothing that students are interested in reading, nothing that stands out to them. I get excited about books and I want my students to get excited about books, so I buy new, colorful books to interest them.

I also have some students who have difficulties with fluency so whenever I find a book, I buy the matching audio CD for our listening center. It really motivates my lower-level readers and gives them confidence. But materials are expensive and right now I only have one pair of headphones.

Text clubs and literacy circles are a really big deal in our classroom, and in order to have a class set of books for each group, I’ve been buying six books per group. It costs between $130 and $180 for a text club cycle, and we’ve been through two cycles already.

My students always ask, “When are we going to start a new text club?” For a while I was putting them off because I had to buy the books. I already have thousands of dollars in receipts.

It’s time to restore

Teacher’s Choice!

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