Roanoke Book of the Month Club



(September 2006) Roanoke Principal Debra Rodgers loves a good book, and she wants the students in her school to have that as a common experience. On Friday, September 8, the second day of school she had the first of her monthly “Book of the Month Club” assemblies. The first book to which the students listened, as the illustrations were projected on to a large screen, was entitled Old Turtle and the Broken Truth (Wood/Muth), a book about the search for peace.

“I want my students to share the experience of listening to the same book,” explains Ms. Rodgers. “Siblings can go home and talk about good literature with their families. In addition, classmates have a shared experience. Each class sends their STAR student forward to receive a copy of the book for their classroom library. Each month of the school year, the students will listen to a book together and add to their libraries.