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Find and Share Books For School and Classroom Libraries with Our FREE Pass the Note Tool


Are you always on the lookout for book recommendations and award winners?

How much time does it take you to compile those recommendations into a format to share with others? 

How much time do you spend downloading book images one by one with no easy way to gather all the details? 

How much time do you spend trying to find which ones come with free teacher resources? 

How much time do you spend manually copying and pasting images into Canva, PowerPoint, or a Word document to make it visually pleasing? 

When your time and budget are limited, let us help you in your mission to get high-quality resources for your students with our free PDF exporter tool.

Compile free lists of recommended products by relevant and trending topics in education. Educators and administrators can find:

  • Books – New, popular, and quality books are supplemented with strategies, free guides, teaching downloads backed by third-party reviews, and detailed product information.
  • Hands-On – Browse by popular product lines and subjects. Find storage solutions to outfit your Makerspaces, STEM labs, media centers, and library with products for arts and crafts projects, robotics, 3-D printing, prototyping, and more.

These lists will empower you to find the books and hands-on learning materials you need to help students succeed!

Pass the Note

Check out our three formats:

Presentation (Landscape PDF)

Our PDF exporter tool compiles the list information and your selections into a downloadable presentation you can email, print, or insert into slides. Your colleagues can then review all the pertinent details, including which lists have free educational resources.

Curriculum Recommendations

Our idea lists enable you to easily print out details about your selections in a worksheet-style format, including which ones have free educational resources. Plus, for those who like to print hard copies and scribble notes during a discussion, this format is ideal.

Reading Lists

Are you generating ideas for books to read over school breaks or offering recommendations to help a striving reader find the right book? Provide a list of recommended readings with a short book synopsis, number of pages, and book covers.

Here are other ways to use Pass the Note:

  • Create ALA mock awards by exporting a presentation PDF to use in a PowerPoint
  • Make winter break/summer break lists for students to take home

Pass the Note

Learn how to fall in love with our Pass the Note tool from trusted Teacher Librarian Shannon McClintock Miller who shares step-by-step how to use it in her blog post:

Introducing "Pass the Note"...A New FREE Tool from Follett Content to Help Librarians and Educators Easily Find and Share Books for Our Libraries and Classrooms! You Will Love It, Friends!

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