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The Teaching Librarian 26.1 31 Tips for a Successful Forest of Reading Program Try to order at least five copies of each title. Fundraising helps pay for the books. Host a "book tasting" in the library to entice students and whet their appetite for the books. Encourage other teachers in the school to sign up for novels. Let students know who is reading the books so that they can go to the teachers to talk about the books. Participate in Forest Friday virtual author talks. Invite students to bring their lunch and chat with the authors. Use Twitter to share thoughts and ideas about the books. Use Google Classroom to facilitate student sign-up, to create a collaborative space to talk about the books and to post activities. Make Forest of Reading visible around the school. Set up bulletin boards showcasing the Forest of Reading books. Post graphs to highlight everyone's progress as they read the books. got to read the top three finalists. it is a very time-consuming process filling in individual applications for each student which includes writing a paragraph as to why i think they would be a good choice. About 40 of my students applied. There also is an art contest associated with the festival and the winning artist gets their art on the actual awards given to the authors. i explain the art contest to the kids each year, collect all their art, photocopy it, send away the originals to the contest and then do a school wide contest winner in each of the categories. This year one of my students won the whole contest! it was truly amazing to see how proud she was. Although it can be very time consuming and all encompassing, i cannot recommend this program enough. it gets kids excited, motivated, and involved. most importantly, it gets students reading and coming back for more! They are all already talking about who might be nominated next year! z