If you are a librarian, teacher, or parent who has collected student votes, please email me at liblaura5 AT gmail DOT com or message me on twitter @liblaura5, and I will get you the link to submit your student votes.
The voting will end March 30, 2012 and once the votes are tallied, the winning book will be announced here.
Time is flying by, and we are starting to plan ahead for voting and next year's nominees.
There will be a link to a form to submit votes from this site that goes live the last week in February 2012 and stays open through the first week in March.
We are also planning ahead and taking suggestions for next year's nominees.
You don't necessarily need multiple copies of each of the 15 books to have students participate in reading and voting.
In my library I only have one copy of each title. Since the majority of students who will be participating are in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades, we are enjoying the titles as a whole classes.
Part of my reasoning for this is financial, but mostly I want all of my K-2 students to be able to participate in the voting in late February. Students only need to have read (or have read to them) 8 of the 15 titles to be able to vote.
I may buy a copy or two more of a few titles depending on the demand after we read them together. Even my Kindergartners know how to place holds - and when they like something they do!
Since for some of the books it will be a long time between the "read-together" and voting, I am trying to incorporate some ways for us to remember the books come voting time.
We recently read Rain School by James Rumford.
After we read the book together, I asked students what they liked about the story, or what they will remember and then recorded their answers.
There is now a space on wikispaces organized by book title for information, supporting links, book trailers and lesson ideas for each of the 15 books: http://15books.wikispaces.com
This is a work in progress, and I would love to add any ideas you may have. Click on the discussion tab on any of the book pages to add comments or ideas for that book.
There is a permanent link to this wiki from the menu at the top of this blog.
