Each year, we like to showcase the Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) winning books as they are very popular and circulate a good bit. If you are not familiar with this ‘series’, here is a blurb from the SSYRA website:
“The Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) Program is a statewide reading motivational program for students in grades 3 through 8, in a collaborative effort between the Florida Association of Media in Education (FAME) and the Florida Department of Education (DOE). The purpose of the SSYRA Program is to encourage students to read independently for pleasure and to read books that are on, above, and below their reading level in order to improve their reading fluency. Sunshine State books are selected for their wide appeal, literary value, varied genres, curriculum connections, and/or multicultural representation. The SSYRA committee is comprised of 20 qualified school librarians located throughout the state of Florida, subdivided into two committees- grades 3-5 and grades 6-8.”
In addition to the 3-5 grade books, we also showcase the SSYRA Jr. award winning books. These are picture books geared toward students in K-2 grade. We finally completed a snazzy section for these books in our youth fiction series section. The display features both the 3-5 grade and K-2 grade titles all in one spot for easy access. To go with the books, we labeled the shelves for easier access and I created display flyers that feature the SSYRA titles, a picture of the book, and a brief blurb about each title. This should help to further entice our young readers to pick up and check out these award winning titles!
Mr. Anthony's Bookshelf 