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What makes All for Books™ uniquely important?Unfortunately, not all children can afford the books they want. And many teachers do not have an updated classroom library full of the books kids want to read. As a result, students miss out on the opportunity to get easy access to books.

All for Books is a simple way to raise funds during and even in advance of your Book Fair to purchase much-needed books for your school. Through All for Books, your school collects loose change and dollar bills to buy books for kids needing assistance, to help teachers build and refresh classroom libraries, or to aid an outside group in need of books.

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Kids will read books they self-select. Wouldn’t it feel great to know that every child left your Book Fair with at least one book he or she wanted? Or picture your school and classroom libraries refreshed with current bestsellers and more titles kids love to read. That would be a truly successful Book Fair, and that’s exactly what All for Books is about.

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All for Books™ is also about giving back. All for Books gives your school’s students the opportunity to give and receive the gift of reading. The program provides students altruistic moments by teaching them the value of giving back to help others . . . even if it’s just a few pennies.

Whether you opt to support students and teachers at your own school or adopt a sister school or outside group in need of books, just choose a cause, promote it, and use donated funds to purchase books from your Book Fair.

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Your efforts make a difference at a national level too. The donations your school raises will not only help those close to home but also have a positive influence at a national level. Scholastic Book Fairs® matches monetary donations with a donation of up to one million dollars in books from the Scholastic Possible Fund, which distributes books to children in need through organizations such as Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc. and Kids In Need Foundation.

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How your school benefits:• Gives more students access to books they’ll want

to read, creating stronger readers at your school

• Puts more books into the hands of more students and teachers who need assistance

• Builds classroom libraries providing all kids greater access to books

• Increases your total Book Fair revenue, profit, and Scholastic Dollars™ allowing you to achieve more school goals

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1. Identify purpose or cause

3. Collect donations

2. Promote how funds will be used

4. Purchase books from your Book Fair

Best Practices Although there are many best practices, the best plans consistently include these four steps:

The following pages present best practices to help you achieve a high level of success with All for Books™.

Best Practices

Effective Best PracticesBefore your Fair: Engage kids in a spirited loose coin challenge! Here are three simple and highly effective coin drive ideas that will help you raise the most All for Books™ donations:

• Battle of the Coins – Give each grade level a collection container. Invite students to fill their container with silver coins for positive points and other containers with pennies for negative points. At the end of your Fair, tally up grade level points and award a prize. You can also conduct this idea as a “boys vs. girls” challenge.

• Coin-a-day Challenge – Place a collection container for each grade level in your media center. Promote the collection of a different coin for each day of the week: Penny Monday, Nickel Tuesday, Dime Wednesday, Quarter Thursday, and Any Coin Friday. Award the winning grade with a prize.

• Student Vote: This vs. That – Place containers in a central location, each offering a different choice for students to vote on. Invite kids to cast votes for their favorite choice by depositing a coin of any denomination into a container. The container with the greatest amount of change wins the popular vote.

During your Fair: Place a collection box near your cash register. Instruct cashiers to actively ask shoppers if they would like to contribute their change or a dollar to help purchase books for classroom libraries.

Give anyone who makes a donation an All for Books book slip to fill out (use the enclosed padded slips or print book slips from the online Toolkit). Display book slips at your Fair.

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If you collect funds in advance of your Fair using a loose coin drive:• Start early! The key to success with coin drives is to begin at least

two weeks before your Fair’s start date.

• Tally up funds on the first day of your Fair. Scan that total into your Scholastic EasyScan® system using the All for Books™ barcode on the Scholastic EasyScan scan sheet. This sets up your All for Books bank, helping you track the collection and distribution of donated funds. You can then begin using funds to buy books for students and teachers.

• Remove donations from the collection containers and properly secure them once funds are tallied and scanned. Place an All for Books status label on containers so your community can see how much money you’ve raised to date. (See the online Toolkit for label.)

• Offer prizes with high kid appeal. Throw an ice cream or pizza party for the winning grade. Or, recruit a faculty member to perform a stunt.

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Real-World Success StoriesCheck out these creative real-world success stories from schools around the country for great All for Books™ ideas!

Honoring a Special StudentWeston Middle School, Weston, ORWeston Middle School decided that they would use their All for Books funds to honor a student who died in a car accident. The student was a voracious reader. The school used All for Books donations to fill a bookshelf in the student’s memory with books the student would have loved as well as books about his culture. The Weston Middle School bookshelf will help keep the memory of a special student alive for many years to come.

Out-of-This-World Coin ChallengeMillersville Elementary School, Millersville, MDDuring the school’s space-themed Fair, All for Books became a classroom “Race Through Outer Space” with classes competing to see which could collect the most donations. The top class earned the chance to slime the space invader (their principal), and received the coveted All for Books trophy. The result was an additional 200 books purchased from the Fair for disadvantaged students, classrooms, and the media center.

Chain Reaction With a Twist!Peter Woodbury ElementaryBedford, NHThis elementary school decided to theme the All for Books program so that it tied in to the Story Laboratory theme. For every dollar a student donated, he or she received a glow bracelet. To mark the progress, the school created a chain reaction (using link-shaped book slips). In addition, a child from the grade that donated the most money was awarded a prize. The school raised more than $250 – increasing their All for Books donations by 29% from last year!

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The Coins Rolled In!Westwood Elementary SchoolStillwater, OKThis school used a “Roll in the Coins” theme for the All for Books loose change drive, which ran prior to the opening of the Fair. The librarian created excitement by roller skating into an assembly to introduce the challenge. She then skated to classrooms daily to collect donations. They started with Penny Tuesday, and continued through Quarter Friday. A dry erase status board was posted at the car pool line which prompted parents to dig in their pockets, purses, and glove compartments for loose change every day. A goal chart of progress was posted outside the library so students could also track the progress. Their efforts raised $2,178 in coins to buy books.

Donations for a CauseSwitlik Elementary SchoolJackson, NJTwo weeks before the Book Fair, the school held its first school-wide All for Books coin challenge. They decided to use half of the donations to purchase books for two area schools that were greatly impacted by Superstorm Sandy. The class that brought in the most donations would also win a visit from two mad scientists. The response was overwhelming and the school raised $3,658.17, purchasing $1,800 in books for the two area schools and $1,800 in books for their own school library.

New Books for Classroom LibrariesMcGarity Elementary, Hiram, GATo raise money for All for Books, students were asked to donate $1 as an admission fee into a secret lab. The lab was a room near the library, and was filled with black lights that made items glow in the dark. Because students wanted to visit the secret lab over and over again, donations grew beyond expectations. This activity raised more than $500 for All for Books and the money was used to purchase books for classroom libraries.

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Wrapping up All for BooksThe day before your Fair ends, make sure all donations have been scanned into the Scholastic EasyScan® system.

At the end of your Fair, record your final tally of donations onto your financial form.

Use all funds from your All for Books bank to purchase books for students needing assistance, to help fulfill classroom wish lists, or to help a sister school or outside organization in need of books.

Hand out Scholastic Ticket to Read certificates (available in the online Toolkit) to students and teachers you choose to support with the purchase of books. Certificates need to be redeemed at your Fair.

Remember, All for Books is a book-based program intended to give more kids greater access to books. It is not intended to fund causes unrelated to book donations.

Important Reminder

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Reproducible ToolsAdditional resources (see examples on this page) can be found on the CD in this kit and in the Online Toolkit at

www.scholastic.com/cptoolkitPlease view our All for Books video in your online Toolkit. Keyword: All for Books Video

Ticket to Read

Donation Container Labels

Book Slip(also available in Spanish)

Flyer(also available in black

and white and Spanish)

Letter Home to Parents(also available in Spanish)

Coin-a-day Challenge Note Home

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