1. Welcome to the Book Trust Teacher Training
Thanks for taking time to learn about Book Trust! This powerpoint will be a great tool for using the Book Trust Program during the school year.

2. Congratulations. You are a Book Trust Teacher
Congratulations! You are a Book Trust Teacher. This means that each of your students will have the opportunity to fall in love with reading by ordering $7 worth of books that they are excited to read - every month of the school year (Sept-May)! This webinar will go over everything you need to know for using the program.

3. Contents What is Book Trust? Components of Book Trust Teacher toolkit
How to order with Scholastic
Scholastic teacher incentives
Book Trust website
Next steps
At the end of the PowerPoint, there will be a slide listing your next steps. This powerpoint will be available to you all year, so don’t feel like you have to scramble to write these down.

4. Book Trust National literacy non-profit
Partner with Scholastic and leverage their operations
Book Trust is a national literacy nonprofit and a 501c3. We fundraise all dollars to support the program. Some of these dollars come from schools, districts, generous individuals, and corporate donors.
We partner together with Scholastic to bring Book Trust to you. We leverage Scholastic’s operational and distribution system to bring books to students at a low cost. The $1 and $2 titles are extremely cheap. You cannot get a $1 book anywhere, but Scholastic. We leverage this to bring over 1 million books to kids a year. Book Trust students choose $7 worth of books from the Scholastic catalog every month for 9 months of the year.

5. Book Trust Videos Click here to see our new video!
Click here for our “What is Book Trust” video
Click here to see how to order with Scholastic!
Play both videos for your teachers. You can put these at any point throughout the presentation.
New video:
What is Book Trust video:
How to order with Scholastic:

6. What does it mean to have Book Trust?
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
It’s no longer the haves and the have nots, everyone gets to order with Book Trust!

7. Book Trust Ensures students fall in love with reading
Implemented monthly in classrooms as part of literacy instruction
Results in students building a personal library and teachers building classroom libraries
BT students read more, become better readers, and their families are more engaged in reading
Book Trust ensures that students fall in love with reading through book choice and ownership
3rd bullet – Students build a personal library from their $7 in books each month, and teachers can use the bonus points that they accrue throughout the year to build their classroom libraries.

8. Current Reach: 2015-2016 WY IA NE 170+ schools 50,000 students
1m student books
2,500+ teachers
250,000 books for classroom libraries WY IA NE
This year we are expanding to Nebraska, Iowa, and Wyoming

9. Book Trust Student Reading Growth
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.

10. Teacher Toolkit Each teacher will receive a hard copy of the toolkit
Multiple lesson plans, tip sheets, and worksheets for teachers to use
Available online at the URL booktrust.org/teachertoolkit soon!
Feel free to tweak these lesson plans to fit your classroom’s needs! Is your classroom doing awesome stuff with Book Trust? Book Trust would love to hear it. Book Trust knows that teachers are the innovators in the classroom and your ideas at Book Trust are welcomed with open arms. Write to Book Trust at so that Book Trust can spread the word to other Book Trust Teachers.

11. Book Trust Program Components
Choice
Strong classroom culture of literacy
Book Trust is a national literacy program that gives students the opportunity to fall in love with reading. Teachers implement the Program every month in their classrooms with their students.
They 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

12. Empowering students to choose books
Students Choose
Anticipation Builds
Engagement Increases
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.

13. Student Choice Choice increases motivation to read
Readers are most engaged and excited about their reading when they are able to choose their own books. Because choice is one of the most powerful methods for enhancing the motivation to read, Book Trust Teachers make class time each month for choice. By ensuring students to find books that excite and interest them, Book Trust teachers lay the foundation for student motivation.

14. Anticipation Builds Students await the arrival of books
Teachers mark a “reading celebration” day on the calendar
Book Trust Teachers use the monthly book ordering process to build anticipation and excitement for their students around reading. Students track The Book Box and anxiously await the arrival of their books after the order is placed with Scholastic Reading Club. Even before the box of books arrives, teachers begin building anticipation by marking the calendar with a ‘reading celebration’ day.

15. Engagement Increases Motivation to Read Profile Assessment
Choice and anticipation help increase engagement and motivation for students around reading. Students are more motivated to read when they choose the books they want to read, just like we are as adults. In fact, students participating in Book Trust have performed higher on the Motivation to Read Profile Assessment – this assessment measures both the value of reading and the self-concept of students as readers

16. Ideas for Choice Mingle Mingle Gallery Walk
Mingle Mingle (perfect for kinesthetic learners) – students mingle around the room with their flyer. Teachers pick a signal word to say (for example, you school mascot) so the kids will stop and partner up. Repeat and the students can do it up to 3-4 times. They can share what they’re thinking of ordering and they can learn what their classmates are thinking of ordering.
Gallery Walk is similar to the picture above. Instead students can lay out their Scholastic catalogs on their desks after circling what they’re interested in. They then leave their desks and walk around the room to check out what other students are ordering. Older kids can write comments on sticky notes like “I want that book too” or “I’ve read that book”

17. Ideas for Choice Club Leo flyer and “We Need Diverse Books” flyer
Be sure to request the Club Leo catalog for book titles in Spanish. There is a new catalog this year that includes books with diverse characters. Keep an eye out for the catalog coming out from Scholastic and the non-profit “We Need Diverse Books” that Scholastic will have available this fall. Book Trust doesn’t know the name yet – but we will message as soon as we find out.
Club Leo Flyers/We Need Diverse Flyer: Although these flyers come in once every few months, teachers can access the online catalog and order books from these catalogs every single month.

18. Ideas for Choice
For younger students, work together 1-1 or in small groups to choose books that add to $7

19. Ideas for Choice
Cut apart Scholastic catalogs by reading level and price to make choice easier for students

20. Inside the toolkit Ideas for choice Choice book club cards
Check out Booktrust.org/teachertoolkit for more resources
Here’s a photo of Whitney, the Program Manager at Book Trust, holding up the teacher toolkit.

21. Fun Fact
90% of teachers who used the Book Trust Program said that Book Trust increased the social acceptability of reading

22. 2. Classroom culture of literacy
Celebration
Sharing
Routine
Independent reading
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?

23. Celebration Teachers create excitement
Students participate in activities
When the Book Box arrives every month, Book Trust classrooms transform into a place of celebration around books and reading. Teachers create excitement by handing out books award-style, calling each student up to get his book and announcing the titles. Teachers also employ 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.

24. Sharing Students share out Teachers model sharing
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. Book Trust donors and classroom visitors often share in the fun, reading with students on book delivery days or receiving letters from students about the experience. Teachers build a strong classroom culture by encouraging sharing between students and modeling sharing with their own choices.

25. Routine Happens every month Instilling reading habits
Book Trust is a unique Program because it happens every month of the school year. Monthly routine builds the habits and behaviors of good readers. Book Trust Teachers establish routines and use best practices to instill reading habits in their students around choice, independent reading, and partner reading. By practicing and implementing these routines around reading, Book Trust Teachers build a classroom culture where the joy of reading and learning is discussed every day.

26. Independent Reading Teachers make class time Reading for joy
Books that students are excited to read bring a whole new meaning to independent reading time. Teachers make class time for independent reading of the Book Trust books before they go home. Because students are excited to read their books, independent reading becomes a joyful, self-directed practice in the classroom. No longer are teachers eyeing students and constantly assessing engagement in the classroom as they try to get a classroom of kids reading independently. Independent reading has an enormous impact on young readers and their ability to succeed in all subject areas.

27. Ideas on how to build culture
Have a simple celebration every time the book box arrives, such as a drum roll or clapping to get the students excited

28. Ideas on how to build culture
Have student share about their favorite books in groups or to the whole class

29. Inside the toolkit Ideas for celebration
Ideas on how to share your celebrations with Book Trust
Check out Booktrust.org/teachertoolkit for more resources

30. Fun Fact
98% of Book Trust Teachers report that their students are reading at home with their families
Book Trust students read more at home with their families than non-Book Trust students. 98% of Book Trust teachers report that their students are reading at home with their families and Book Trust students also report with a higher frequency that they have a favorite book in their home, they read book with their families, and they know what their reading level is.

31. 3. Family Engagement Ownership Home libraries 20 minutes a night
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. Teachers leverage the books as a platform to discuss reading with families and to promote the importance of reading at least 20 minutes every night.

32. Ownership Students own books Students write their names on books
Students participating in Book Trust become book owners with a growing home library. The entire class then reads independently or with reading buddies. Then, the books go home. By addressing the “book gap” between children of middle-income and low-income families, Book Trust is ensuring that all children have the opportunity to read at home, many for the first time in their lives. Students who are book owners are more likely to read above their expected reading level than students who do not own books.

33. Home Libraries Students create a special place for their books
As students own and take home books every month in the Book Trust Program, they begin to build home libraries. 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.
Kids are collecting up to 30 books throughout the school year. There is a special lesson plan this year in the teacher toolkit that will be available to you to use.

34. 20 minutes a night Students read to others Students use reading logs
Research shows that reading for 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.
Teachers can give parents best practices and resources for how you do this.

35. Ideas on Engaging families
Talk about Book Trust at back to school nights or family literacy nights
Here is a photo of an amazing Book Choice poster that one school had in their hallway for when parents walk in to pick up their students.

36. Ideas on Engaging families
Share Book Trust tip sheets with your families
Found at Booktrust.org/teachers

37. This image is by Greer Genius and can be found on their website at

38. Inside the toolkit Ideas for talking with families about Book Trust
A lesson on how to build your own home library
Check out Booktrust.org/teachertoolkit for more resources
This is a photo of the Program Director, Whitney, and new Director of Professional Development, Jessie, holding the Toolkit.

39. Fun Fact
86% of Book Trust teachers report that their families are asking for tips and activities to do while reading at home

40. How to Order with Scholastic
Step 1: Teachers must create a Scholastic account
Go to to create an account
If you already have a Scholastic account, login to update or confirm your student roster number as well as the grade you will be teaching this school year
Making sure your Scholastic account information is correct (grade taught, number of students, etc) will ensure that you receive the correct Scholastic flyers to your school.
If teachers have a Scholastic account, they can open their account and follow along with the presentation.

41. Teacher Pre-Survey Step 2: Teachers take the pre-survey
You will receive an with a link to take the pre-survey from
The survey will take approximately 20 minutes
You will receive a link to a pre-survey once your Book Trust Manager sets up their teacher roster (mid-august). Your Book Trust Manager is a liaison between your school and Book Trust. If you have not received a link to take the survey, please support at

42. Customer Number
Step 3: Teachers provide Book Trust with their customer number on the pre-survey
Customer numbers are used to download and pay Student Flyer Orders
If you’re having trouble locating your customer number, watch video on the following page
Step 1
Book Trust uses your customer number to reconcile/reimburse your account for up to $7 per student per month.
If you’ve changed schools, changed your last name, etc, your customer number may have changed. You should always be aware of your customer number and inform your Book Trust Manager immediately if it has changed.

43. Customer Number
Click here to watch the video to see how to find your customer number from inside Scholastic
Step 1

44. Place your order
Step 4: After completion of the pre-survey, Book Trust will confirm your customer number
Teachers will receive confirmation via that they are ready to place their first order
Confirmation should arrive within 2 business days of completing the pre-survey
Step 1
The following slides will show how to correctly place your order.

45. Order Frequency Step 1 Be sure to order only 1 time per month
Book Trust will not reimburse teacher accounts for late or early orders
For example, teachers may not place December orders in November
Step 1
Book Trust automatically downloads your orders from Scholastic based on the date that they were placed. Please only place one order per month, within the calendar days for that month. If you order for November on November 1, and you order for December on November 30, both orders will show up as November orders. Book Trust will pay up to $7 per student, which will leave you with a balance on your Scholastic account if you’re ordering twice in one month.

46. Order Deadline Step 1 Order by the 15th of each month!
Any order placed after 10 pm CT the last day of the month will count as the next months’ order
This means students lose out on one month’s books
Step 1
The window for ordering is between the first and last day of the month – but Book Trust suggests that you order before the 15th each month. Sometimes teachers have issues and ordering by the 15th each month gives Book Trust time to adjust issues.

47. How to Order
Click here to watch a video showing how to place your order using the Student Flyer Order tab
Watch this video: to see how to order your books using the Student Flyer Order tab. Book Trust Teachers must order via the Student Flyer Order tab if they wish to receive reimbursement on their order.

48. Order Tabs
Book Trust Teachers must use the Student Flyer Order tab for Book Trust orders.

49. Order Tabs cont.
Bonus points should be spent on the Your Teacher Order tab.
Book Trust will not reimburse any orders placed on the “Your Teacher Order” tab. Book Trust pays student orders, teachers are responsible for paying their teacher orders.

50. Ordering with Scholastic cont.
Step 5: Spend $7 per student per month
Encourage students to spend the full $7 each month!
If students order $4, Book Trust will pay $4 for that student
If a student orders $9, Book Trust will pay $7 for that student and the teacher must collect and send in the additional $2 to Scholastic
Book Trust recommends teachers send in the additional cash monthly, rather than waiting and paying at the end of the year

51. Ordering with Scholastic cont.
Step 6: Choose the “checks” payment method
Scholastic does not require payment upon checkout for teachers who choose the “checks” option
Book Trust Teachers will choose the “checks” payment method.
Book Trust, using your Customer Number, will apply the payment to your account.
See the next slide for an image of the “checks” option

52. Payment Method
Choose the “checks” payment method upon checkout. Mail additional money (for orders above $7) to Scholastic.

53. Order Confirmation Step 7: Await email confirmation from Scholastic
After successfully submitting an order, teachers will receive confirmation from Scholastic
If you did not receive confirmation, you may not have fully placed your order. Login to Scholastic to see if the order is still in your cart
See the next slide for an example of a confirmation .

54. Order Confirmation Email
Teachers should save their confirmation s each time they place a Book Trust order. You will see this lists the date the order was placed, the order reference number, the order total, and the amount placed on the Student Flyer order tab.
Remember, your confirmation will not say “Amount Paid with Credit Card” as it does above, but rather “Amount Paid by Checks”

55. Repayment Policy
Book Trust pays orders the 15th of the following month
Ex: September orders will be paid by October 15
You may receive a statement from Scholastic
Check your account the 15th of the following month to figure out your balance
The reconciliation process, or process we go through to pay Scholastic for your student orders, can take several weeks. If you receive a statement, it does not mean your account has not been paid by Book Trust. For this reason, we recommend checking your account the fifteenth of each month for the previous months’ orders.
We appreciate your patience with us; we will get all Book Trust eligible payments made.

56. Repayment Policy
Click here to watch a video showing how to check your account balance
On the 15th of the month following your order, you should login to your Scholastic account and check your balance. Watch the video to see how to check your balance.
How to check your account balance:

57. Our guarantee We will pay all Book Trust eligible orders
If you think Book Trust has made a mistake paying your account, contact us at as soon as possible!
It is your responsibility to let Book Trust know if you think there has been a mistake in repayment. The sooner you let Book Trust know, the sooner Book Trust can correct the problem! We appreciate your trust as Book Trust works to get all teacher accounts paid.

58. Scholastic Catalogs
Scholastic has a variety of catalogs available for you to choose from.
Do you have Spanish speaking students? Club Leo (bottom right in the picture) offers books in Spanish.
Check out Scholastic’s new catalog in partnership with the nonprofit “We Need Diverse Books” for books with diverse characters.

59. Scholastic Teacher Incentives
Order $50 in books by September 30 and receive a class set of book coupons, classroom poster, and stickers
Order $125 or more by September 30 and ALSO get a free 10-book pack – based on the grade indicated you teach
Since you will be ordering books for all of your students each month through Book Trust, you 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! The teacher toolkit you will be receiving has ideas for how you can spend your bonus points throughout the year.

60. Website www.booktrust.org/teachers
Book Trust Manager: Open the website, show teachers the teacher page, and open the drawers with the resources.

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62. Next Steps
Create a Scholastic account or confirm your Scholastic account details
Take the pre-survey, which you will receive via once your Book Trust Manager completes their teacher roster
Receive confirmation that you are ready to place your first order
Pass out Scholastic flyers to students and help them choose books
Order between September 1-September 30!

63. Next Steps for Student Surveys
Only for OUSD 2nd and 3rd grade teachers:
Have your 2nd and 3rd grade students complete the student survey by September 10th
Teachers will not be able to place their September order until their student surveys are complete
Book Trust Managers: if you are not one of these regions, you can delete this slide.

64. 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.