BCTF lending library

The newest service offered by the BCTF Library is the book lending service. BCTF members can browse the catalogue and borrow up to three books at a time. The books will be mailed to you to enjoy for one month, and return postage is included. Check out the lending library catalogue at bctf.ca/library!

Popular titles in 2025

Ally Is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

What can you do to be a better ally for your Indigenous colleagues, community members, and friends? By actively listening to the history and current lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples, you can take steps to address the inequities they continue to face. Author Rose LeMay notes that if you continually educate yourself, you will see many opportunities to be an ally. This insightful book suggests how to enter the field of reconciliation in a good way in your community and your workplace. LeMay describes key principles to promote reconciliation, deepen your practice of allyship, and contribute to meaningful change.

Mathematics Tasks for the Thinking Classroom: Grades K–5

Building on the blockbuster success of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, this book brings the Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) framework to life. But this book is so much more than simply a collection of good thinking tasks. It delves deeper into the implementation of the 14 practices from the BTC framework by updating the practices with the newest research and focusing on the practices through the lens of rich math tasks that address specific mathematical learning outcomes.

Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching

This book reaffirms the enduring importance of effective explanations at a time when “teacher talk” is often undervalued. Drawing on the science of learning, the author explores essential techniques for showing, telling, demonstrating, modelling, and presenting so that even the most complex concepts become accessible to all learners. Engage with the art and science of “breaking it down” to discover how a direct and explicit approach to teaching can significantly affect classroom success.

Know Better, Do Better Comprehension: Fueling the Reading Brain with Knowledge, Vocabulary, and Rich Language

The authors explore how the mind comprehends texts. They translate research in clear terms to help teachers understand what students truly need to read deeply for pleasure and with purpose. Focusing on vocabulary, knowledge building, and language structures, they provide cutting-edge instructional ideas and ready-to-use tools to help teachers put their understanding into action immediately.

Megabook of Fluency: Strategies and Texts to Engage All Readers

This book provides dozens of ready-to-use, science-backed teaching strategies and student practice pages to help improve student fluency, the bridge between word recognition and comprehension. The book’s easy-to-navigate design includes QR codes to demonstration videos and student pages.

Primary Reading Simplified: A Practical Guide to Classroom Teaching and Whole-School Implementation

An essential guide to teaching reading in primary classrooms and leading whole-school implementation of literacy teaching. It is the practical companion to the bestselling The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading (also in the lending library collection).

7 Mighty Moves: Ready-to-Use Tools and Templates to Transform Your Teaching

This companion resource to 7 Mighty Moves (also in the collection and reviewed here) offers everything a teacher needs to implement each move with ease, including classroom-tested routines, reproducible templates and student activity pages, word lists, picture cards, texts for decoding and fluency practice, and so much more.