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Betty Ann Young

Spring Book Fair at Hancock Elementary School At Hancock Elementary School, we have a spring Book Fair from Scholastic Books to take advantage of their Buy One Get One Free Fair. Our school librarian has a Book Fair in the fall so that we may qualify for the spring Buy One Get One Free Fair. We have made this fair a "book" fun(d) raiser. Whenever a student buys a book, his/her classroom teacher gets the free book. All students come to the fair to first find a "just right" book for themselves and then to find one that matches the book that they plan to purchase that will go to their classroom library. As the Reading Specialist of the school, I provide a lesson to each class that visits the book fair on book selection. The "Five Finger" method of book selection is explained. The student randomly opens a book of interest and begins to read. Every time the student encounters an unknown word, a finger covers the word. If all fingers and the thumb cover words on the page, the book is too difficult for the student to read independently. This year, the Book Fair was featured at Hancock's Family Wellness Night. Students wrote poems relating to health and safety issues to tie literacy to Family Wellness Night. The students at Montgomery County Community College helped out at the evening event and supported the Book Fair.