1. Welcome to the Book Trust Overview Led by V. P
Welcome to the Book Trust Overview Led by V.P. of Program Melissa Wagasky and Director of Professional Development Jessie Chase

2. FREE Books! Books! Books! For Your Students and Classrooms!
Do your students have their very own home libraries?  Do they have personal books that are of interest to them and at age appropriate reading levels?
Do your teachers have robust classroom libraries? If you answered no to any of these questions, we have an exciting opportunity to share!
We partner together with Scholastic to bring Book Trust to you. Book Trust students choose $7 worth of books from the Scholastic catalog every month.

3. Book Trust National literacy non-profit
Partner with Scholastic and leverage their operations
NYCDOE and the Fund for Public Schools are bringing Book Trust to 4,700 elementary school students at K-8 renewal schools this year.
We partner together with Scholastic to bring Book Trust to you. Book Trust students choose $7 worth of books from the Scholastic catalog every month.

4. 250,000 books for classroom libraries
Current Reach:
18 states
170+ schools
50,000 students
1 million student books
2,500+ teachers
250,000 books for classroom libraries
This year we are expanding to Nebraska, Iowa, and Wyoming

5. Contents What is Book Trust? How does Book Trust work?
What does it mean to be a Book Trust school?
Book Trust Buzz
Applying for Book Trust

7. What does it mean to have Book Trust?
Scholastic flyers stay in class – instead of going home
Every student orders
Every student spends $7 a month
Reading is celebrated
Students build a home library
Teachers build a classroom library
It’s no longer the haves and the have nots, everyone gets to order with Book Trust!

8. Book Trust Program Components
Choice
Strong classroom culture of literacy
Book Trust teachers prioritize empowering students to choose books, building a strong classroom culture of reading and literacy, and engaging families around reading at least 20 minutes a night with their growing Book Trust home library.
Book Trust students are more motivated to read after participating in the Program and teachers cite Book Trust as one of the most meaningful classroom tools available to them.
Family Engagement

9. Motivation and Engagement Increase
Empowering students to choose books
Student Choice
Anticipation Builds
Motivation and Engagement Increase
September through May, the Book Trust Program provides students with the opportunity to choose and own their own books. Choice is a critical first step to ensuring that a child has the opportunity to fall in love with reading and is a unique part of the Program. Choice is a unique part of our program – while there are many reading programs out there, Book Trust is the only program that allows for student book choice every month of the school year!
Book Trust Teachers get their kids pumped up about the arrival of their books by building anticipation and excitement around reading – for example by marking the calendar with a ‘reading celebration’ day.
Students track The Book Box beginning immediately after the teacher hits “submit” on their Book Trust order.
Choice and anticipation help increase student engagement and motivation for students around reading. Students are more motivated to read when they are choosing the books they read themselves.
Book Trust students perform higher on the Motivation to Read Profile Assessment – an assessment that measures both the value of reading and the self-concept of students as readers.

10. 2. Classroom culture of literacy
Celebration
Sharing
Independent Reading
2. Classroom culture of literacy
Routine
Book Trust classrooms are a place of reading celebration. Teachers make class time every month to celebrate the arrival of books and promote culture of reading among their students. Teachers prioritize class time for celebration, read-alouds, sharing, and independent reading. These activities contribute to a powerful culture and joy around reading – and what teacher doesn’t want to see that happening in their own classroom?
Book Trust classrooms transform into a place of celebration around reading when that book box arrives each month.
Teachers call each student up one by one to hand out books award style.
Teachers also make use of a variety of activities introduced through Book Trust’s professional development, such as reading picnics, reading forts with flashlights, and student book clubs.
Research shows that the act of celebrating books and reading is central to making reading fun and enjoyable for all students.
Students share their books in their book clubs or they may even read aloud to the whole class.
Research shows that book sharing is the single most important activity for reading success and develops active listening skills, new vocabulary, and respect for others ideas.
Teachers build a strong classroom culture by encouraging sharing between students and modeling sharing with their own choices.
Books that students are excited to read bring a whole new meaning to independent reading time.
For many of you who have been in classrooms during independent reading, you know that there are always those students who need to get up to use the bathroom or sharpen their pencil once independent reading time begins. Independent reading of Book Trust Books before they go home means that reading becomes a joyful, self-directed practice in the classroom. and we know that Independent reading and increasing reading stamina has an enormous impact on young readers and their ability to succeed in all subject areas.
Book Trust is a unique Program because it happens every month of the school year. Other book programs that allow for choice occur just once or twice a year.
Routine is really about instilling habits and behavior of great readers. Students should be reading for joy on a regular basis, and Book Trust Teachers build a classroom culture where the joy of reading is discussed every single day.

11. 3. Family Engagement Ownership Home Libraries Read 20 Minutes
Helping families to read regularly in the home contributes toward strong reading behaviors and achievement in the classroom. The Program serves as a bridge between classrooms and families when students own books and take them home every month to build their library.
Students participating in Book Trust become book owners, and they have growing home libraries!
Teachers stamp students’ books each month with the Book Trust stamp and students write their name in every book.
The entire class then reads independently or with reading buddies.
Book Trust is ensuring that children have the opportunity to read at home – many of the students for the first time in their lives!
Research shows that students who are book owners are more likely to read above their expected reading level than students who do not own books.
Students are bringing home up to 30 books throughout the school year. Teachers encourage students to create a special place for their books and even help students to build shoe box library shelves to promote the home library. These home libraries then become a resource not only for the student, but the entire family. Many families report that all siblings use and read the Book Trust Books.
Research shows that reading for at least 20 minutes a night pays dividends in a child’s education, so teachers use the new home libraries to encourage families to read nightly. Students share that they read to their families, their families read to them, that siblings and cousins read together, and that sometimes they even read to the family pet. Book Trust Teachers also have reading logs and other tools to promote this nightly reading with families. When families make time for reading, students become better readers and have more success in school and in life.
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12. Scholastic Teacher Incentives
Teachers use Book Trust to pay for student books
Teacher receive all the Scholastic bonus points from their Book Trust orders
Teachers benefit and make purchases with bonus points
Since teachers will be ordering books for all of your students each month through Book Trust, teachers will be earning hundreds of bonus points from Scholastic throughout the school year! The incentives above are available if you order through Scholastic during the month of September. Each month there will be new incentives!

13. What does it mean to be a Book Trust school?
Principal applies and selects a Book Trust Manager (10 minute commitment)
Book Trust Manager attends a training and trains their teachers (1 hour commitment)
Book Trust teachers facilitate choice and celebration each month (1 hour commitment per month)

14. – Dr. Robert Villarreal, Castro Elementary School
Principals
“Students are more engaged with reading than they have been in the past, which drives their improved achievement.” – Cesar Rivera, Samuels Elementary School
“Book Trust is that "magic bullet" that allows all our children to build a personal library; form a passion for reading; allows children to select books of their personal choosing and thus, intrinsically motivates children to read.”
– Dr. Robert Villarreal, Castro Elementary School
What’s all the buzz about Book Trust?

15. - David Shindoll, Johnson Elementary
Teachers
“As a literacy interventionist, one of my main goals is to create an environment in which children can develop a love of reading. Book Trust is a HUGE support in children developing that love of reading.”
- David Shindoll, Johnson Elementary
98% percent of Book Trust Teachers reported that their students are reading at home with their families.
What’s all the buzz about Book Trust?

16. Students What’s all the buzz about Book Trust?
“The things that I love in Book Trust was the big selection of books you could pick and free books. The selection had a lot of genres. I don't have that much books at home and I wanted some books to read. Now, I have plenty of books from you.”
– 4th Grader, Hawaii
“I have been able to learn so much because I have enough money for a book.”
– 3rd grader, Michigan
What’s all the buzz about Book Trust?

17. Book Trust Student Reading Growth shared by Teachers
Book Trust surveys both Book Trust Teachers and non book trust teachers every spring. One of the results I’d like to show you today is the comparison in reading growth between students at a non-Book Trust school and students at a Book Trust school. Book Trust teachers report more student achievement in reading growth than non Book Trust teachers. While both Book Trust teachers and comparison school teachers report that students began the year at the same reading levels, Book Trust teachers reported that their students grew to 59% proficiency, while the comparison schools reported that students grew to 39% proficiency. This 20 point difference was not only statistically significant – but it matches a 5 year trend for the Program. This is huge! Book Trust Teachers, just like you, are doing fantastic work guiding the program on the ground level.

18. How do I apply for Book Trust?
Timeline
Requirements – principal apply
10 – 15 minutes
Application is due 9:00am Monday, September 19th.
Schools will be notified by September 23rd if they will receive the Program and for what grade levels.

19. Questions? Contact support@booktrust.org or call 720-259-8050
We are a hardworking team of 4 and we are here to help! Reach out to us with any questions.