Literacy Development-Reading: Shelfari

Reading teachers might employ Shelfari to get students and book clubs excited about building personal reading lists. Students import titles to build their own virtual bookshelf of books they have read, and then they can create or join book groups to discuss titles or book genres. A threaded discussion board is built into the system to support group activity. If privacy is a concern, teachers can create book groups and restrict access to a specified set of student email addresses.