I repeated some letters, I tried to get a list of at least 34 books to begin my display and to have a back up of books (this will come in handy later). Step 1: I complied a list of letters that could be used to spell the most amount of words. If you checked out a book you got to choose the next scrabble book that went on the display, and you got first dibs at spelling a new word, thus having an advantage and the best chance of getting the highest score that day. You could checkout one of the scrabble books, I provided numbers on the back of each scrabble book and a sign out sheet to allow students to check out the books. The highest scoring word each day won a book. If the word had not already been used that day they got a cookie. Any student could come up to the display, rearrange the scrabble tiles (books) into a word and then they would write that word on a clipboard that I provided next to the display. I then created the different genres out of scrabble tiles, in their 'color' and used those as decor. For the point value of the scrabble letter I color coded it to represent one of 10 genres. I chose to use the first letter of the book title as the scrabble tile letter. Because the books were completely covered I wanted to give a couple of clues as to what the book was in the bag, in case a student wanted to check one out.

Each book was wrapped in a paper bag and had a scrabble tile taped to the front of the bag. I wasn't sure if the display would be popular with my students but it turned out to be a total hit! Here is all the details so you can create a display of your own!īefore I explain each step, let me give you an overview of the scrabble 'game' display.

I came up with an idea to turn the game of Scrabble into an interactive library display.

Time enough for drums by ann rinaldi