Web address: scholastic.com/bookclubs
Class Activation Code: GYL3X

Now it’s easier than ever to find the perfect books for your child – shop the NEW online Scholastic Book Clubs Web site. Choose from a much-wider selection of books than in the printed flyer. Plus, you can send your orders directly to me online and use your credit card to pay.

Best of all, we earn a FREE book for the classroom library every time a parent places an order online.

It’s so simple! Here’s how it works:

• SIGN UP at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. On the parent page, click the “Register” button in the “First Time Here?” section. Register for your own user name and password. When prompted, enter the one-time Class Activation Code GYL3X. This unique code ensures that your order is sent to me.
• SELECT the books you’d like to order – choose from thousands of titles – many more than in our monthly flyers.
• SEND your order to me online by the due date and your child’s books will be delivered directly to my classroom.

Ordering online is fast, easy, and secure.

Of course, you can still order using the form from the printed flyer. But why not see for yourself how convenient it is to order online?

is a great site for learning reading comprehension strategies.  The student side of the site explains the strategy and then let’s them try it themselves. There is a teacher side has a lesson plan and resources like graphic organizers and videos that I will use to teach the strategy before they try it themselves on student side.

The focus for this week will be on Synthesizing what they read with what they already know to get new ideas.

I’ll use the videos first to teach the kids about Synthesizing.

We’ll use a graphic organizer to practice the skill with a reading selection.

Then the kids get to try it themselves.  They will create a username so they can save their progress.  At the end of this activity they are supposed to be able to email their finished bookmark.  We’ll give that a try so you can see what they make.

Reading is Out of This World.

Online Book Ordering Information
scholastic.com/bookclubs
Class Activation Code: GYL3X

Now it’s easier than ever to find the perfect books for your child—shop our NEW online Book Clubs Web site. Choose from a much-wider selection of books than in the printed flyer. Plus, you can send your orders directly to me online and use your credit card to pay.

Best of all, we earn a FREE book for the classroom library every time a parent places an order online.

It’s so simple! Here’s how it works:

• SIGN UP at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. On the parent page, click the “Register” button in the “First Time Here?” section. Register for your own user name and password. When prompted, enter the one-time Class Activation Code GYL3X. This unique code ensures that your order is sent to me.
• SELECT the books you’d like to order—choose from thousands of titles—many more than in our monthly flyers.
• Order online by the due date and your child’s books will be delivered directly to my classroom.

Ordering online is fast, easy, and secure.

Of course, you can still order using the form from the printed flyer. But why not see for yourself how convenient it is to order online?

We have committed to do our part by reading 260 books by December 17th.  That’s a 10 book goal for each student.  I told them that I want them to make it books that are on their reading level.  For most, that means chapter books.

You can read the parent letter about the program.

If we reach our goal, Scholastic has committed to do their part of this Classrooms Care program.  If we do our part, they will help donate 1,000,000 books to classrooms in underprivileged communities through 

Not only are they helping themselves by reading, they are helping others.  You can see

I think we can show our class progress toward the goal.

After we meet our goal, you’ll be able to find us on the Classrooms Care

Today we watched a live Read Now webcast by Nick Cannon and Taylor Swift. It was sponsored by Scholastic in celebration of their 90th anniversary. It is part of their global literacy campaign.
At the end, they invited us to enter the reading sweepstakes.
They were more excited about the poster of Taylor Swift than the free books, but excitement is good. They can enter once per day until November 26th. They will need a parent’s e-mail address, but they can enter my email address jsigler@cjr1.org if they don’t have their own e-mail address.

The whole purpose is to get kids excited about reading. Time to get started!

I try to send home a Scholastic book order each week.  One big characteristic of good readers is that they have lots of books surrounding them at home.  This is a great way to give your child exciting new books at good prices.

To make it even more convenient, Scholastic now lets you place your book  order online.   You can help out our classroom at the same time, because every time you order online, we get a free book for our classroom library.  Ordering online is easy, convenient, and benficial.