What it is: Teacher Book Wizard is an amazing free tool from Scholastic. It provides teachers with the book search tools you have wished for. Search the 50,000 book data base (from all different publishers, not just Scholastic) with several searching options. Search options include: leveled reading (grade level, Lexie Framework, guided reading, or DRA), a quick search when you know what you are looking for, Book Alike to find similar books at the reading level you need, and a list exchange where you and other teachers can share book lists. The Teacher Book Wizard has quizzes and other resources to use with the books you find.
How to integrate Teacher Book Wizard into your curriculum: Do you have students who have one favorite book that they read over and over but never venture out to other books? Use the Book Alike feature in Teacher Book Wizard to find similar books at the correct reading level. You might just find your students a new favorite! Create your own leveled reader library in the classroom using the Leveled Reading tool. Keep track of your book lists and look through other teachers lists with the List Exchange. This is an awesome tool for teachers and librarians, you may find yourself using it on a daily basis to hunt down the perfect book for every student!
Tips: Click on the Take a Tour button for a full video tour of all that the Teacher Book Wizard has to offer.
Please leave a comment and share how you are using Teacher Book Wizard in your classroom.
I use this tool all the time to level my classroom library and to make book lists for the kids in my class. I can save the lists and share them with parents. It was an amazing tool to craft summer reading lists for my students.
I think that one of the best features is the Book List Exchange where I can find lists that other teachers have submitted and save them as mine–make a few additions, a few changes and I have topical book lists that work for the themes that I teach.
And IT IS FREE! What a great resource–