#30 - Classroom Book-A-Day w/ Jillian Heise

Books Between Podcast

#30 - Classroom Book-A-Day w/ Jillian Heise

Released: Jul 31, 2017

Intro

Hi everyone and welcome to Books Between - a podcast for teachers, parents, librarians, and anyone who wants to help connect kids between 8-12 to books they’ll love. I am Corrina Allen - a 5th grade teacher, a mom of two, and spending some rainy summer days with my gals playing Blokus and Canasta and Mario Kart and dreaming of the beach….

This is Episode #30 and today I am sharing with you a conversation with Jillian Heise about Classroom Book A Day. We chat about all the wonderful things that can happen when you read one picture book a day to your class. And yes - even upper elementary AND middle school kids! I had considered holding on to this episode a little longer, but realized that lots of you start school in August and would want to start planning things. If you’re like me, you need some time to mull things over and see how everything’s going to fit together.

So before we get started, I want to let you know a couple things up front. First, at the end of the conversation we mention some resources where you can find out lots more information about #ClassroomBookADay - especially Jillian’s main post about it from her website where she so generously shares her slideshows. And the #ClassroomBookADay Facebook Group. I joined that last month and the community there has been extraordinarily helpful. So - if you are interested, I’ll see you there. And I’ll post links to those right in our show notes and on the All the Wonders site.

Second - Jillian talks about A LOT of incredible books today and I know that, like me, you’re going to get excited about them and want to jot down all the titles! But - I’ve got your back. Every single title mentioned is posted and linked right in the show notes.

Okay - let’s dive in!

Main Topic - Interview with Jillian Heise

Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got inspired to start the #ClassroomBookaDay.

#ClassroomBookaDay is about making time each day in your classroom to read a picture book.

What do you see as the benefit of focusing more on picture books?

I’ve seen these incredible displays of teachers’ #ClassroomBookaDay reading where they post a cover of each book on grid on a bulletin board.

How do you display the #ClassroomBookADay in your school?

How do you see the display of the books as an important of aspect of #ClassroomBookADay?

How do you make time to read one picture book every day?

What is your routine like for reading the books with your students?

What about folks who don’t have their own classroom - librarians, literacy coaches, administrators?

180+ days is a lot to fill! How do you choose titles?

What are some of your favorite books for the first week or so of school?

Where can people go to get more information?

Aside from picture books, what have you been reading lately that you’ve liked?

Closing

Alright - that wraps up our show this week. If you have a question or an idea about a topic we should cover, I would love to hear from you. You can email me at booksbetween@gmail.com or connect on Twitter/Instagram at the handle @Books_Between.

Thank you so much for joining me this week. You can find an outline of interviews and a full transcript of all the other parts of our show along with all of our previous episodes at AlltheWonders.com.

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Thanks again and see you soon! Bye!

Episode Links:

Heise Reads & Recommends: www.heisereads.com

BALB Literacy Consulting: www.balblit.com

Facebook #classroombookaday group: www.facebook.com/groups/classroombookaday

Slideshare with Previous Presentations: www.slideshare.net/mrsheise

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/heisereads

#classroombookaday Origin Story & Updates: http://heisewrites.blogspot.com/2014/09/180-bookaday-read-alouds.html

Nerdy Book Club Post - https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/classroombookaday-the-power-of-shared-picture-book-stories-by-jillian-heise/

PIcture Books Discussed on the Show:

To the Sea (Cale Atkinson)