I am encouraging you to use YOUR OWN books for YOUR OWN classroom. I don't even share my books with my teacher friends. I never-ever-ever post them online or anywhere that they could be copied. I could NEVER sell or even give away the books I have scanned.

When I tell teachers that I have scanned 800 books, sometimes they ask to buy them from me. I felt SOOOO much better after hearing it this way. As long as you purchased those books and you are using them for your own personal use, you don't need to worry about going to jail. He said, 'Do you worry that you will go to jail for putting music from your CDs on your ipod?' I told him no. I still felt kinda bad, so I asked a judge (guilty conscious strikes again) and he put me at ease. They assured me that I didn't need to worry about going to jail for scanning books. So, I came clean and asked those cop dads about it. I knew it was the best way to read to my class, but I wasn't sure I was willing to go to jail for it! I literally worried that one of my students would mention my scanning to their fathers (I had a couple cop dads that year) and I was going to go to jail. 800 books seems like a pretty serious offense, right? I have a super guilty conscious and I worried about going to jail for scanning books all the time. I must tell you that I was quite worried that I was going to go to jail for scanning all these books. This has saved me tons of time plus the joys of NEVER HAVING TO PUT BOOKS AWAY!!!!īut wait! I don't want to be a party-pooper, but we better talk legalities. I can easily find Christmas books in my December folder. I also created folders on my desktop for each month. This makes it so easy for me to find the books I want. I scanned.(are you ready for this?).800 books that year! Yee-haw! I saved each file as the book title. I scanned before and after school, during recess and lunch. I knew that very day that I needed to scan ALL my books and read to my class in this new way. They were actually reading along with the words as I read. We stopped to talk about details in the illustrations and text that I never would have mentioned before. We were SHARING the book as we never had before. I was not reading TO these kids I was reading WITH them! It was so much easier, effortless, and natural to model think-alouds and comprehension strategies. THEY LOVED THE ANT BOOK! I immediately noticed a difference in MY reading. They were asking questions about the story as I read it. The difference was A-ma-ZING! They were engaged and focused. I read the book again when they came back. I scanned each page and then put the images together in a PowerPoint. I worked on it while my kids were at recess. Of course! They need to SEE it! I decided at that moment that I was going to scan the pages of the book and read it again on my board. I asked (more to myself than to them) 'Why don't kids like this book?' and one of my little guys said, 'It is because we can't see it.' It was the most profound 'ah-ha' moment for me. Rolling around, beauty shop, flicking rocks. After all, that book was TEN BUCKS! I started reading and sure enough, the naughty stuff started. I decided I was going to try it again with this class. Every time I read this book, my class turned naughty (which told me they were bored). How do I know kids didn't like it? I didn't hold their interest. Why read a book kids don't like? I paid like ten bucks for this book and I liked it! It fit perfectly with the ant theme I was teaching.

I had already read this book to a few classes and I know that kids do not like this book. Several years ago, I grabbed a book off my shelf to read to my first graders. This all started with a book about ants and an 'ah-ha' moment.

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