How I Built a Classroom Library

…and how my students developed a renewed love of reading.

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In 2018, when our school district moved to a scripted ELA curriculum that no longer included the reading of novels, I decided to build a classroom library. It was unfathomable to me that my sophomores would no longer read To Kill a Mockingbird or any other full-length book! Instead, they would be reading a lot of…