All excellent reasons to join Desert Wind's Bluebonnet Club! #SISD_Reads #DestinationSISDReads #SISDLibraries

Desert Wind has decided to hold a Read-A-Thon! To activate your reader’s account read-a-thon.com/readers/r/3537… and follow the simple instructions. Want to make a donation? Visit our page: read-a-thon.com/school/_57991 Happy Reading! #ColtNation @DW_K8S #SISD_Reads #DestinationSISDReads

Library activities in #ColtNation are so much fun! There's some Pirate Stew for all, young and old! #TeamSISD #riddle #TeamSISD

A great evening at the "Dia de las Familias" literacy night at Eastlake High School. Thank you to our librarians and Books Are Gems for providing us with many books to give out to those who attended the event. Gabriela Elliott #GreatnessOnTheHorizon

Get ready for Non-Fiction November! First up... Twenty-One Steps VS This Very Tree. Which one will be the favorite? @DW_K8S #ColtNation #SISD_Reads #SISD_NonFictionNovember

Check out the 2024-2025 Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees!

Super excited about this week's Bluebonnet club meet! Students did paper marbling to make mini galaxies for the First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett. Keep shinning bright Colt readers and artists! #SISD_Reads @DW_K8S #literaturerocks Marcy Sparks

Thank you again NealShusterman for an amazing author visit with our students! Our Colts were mesmerized with your stories and learning about your journey as a writer! 📚🖊️❤️ #TesmSISD #SISD_Reads

Thank you to all our Deset Wind middle school guest readers who read to our littles for World Read Aloud Day! What a special time here in the library! 📚💛💙🌎 #SISD_Reads #SISDLibraries @DW_K8S

We’re playing matchmakers this month and selecting books for our readers with our ‘Blind Date with a Book’ challenge! What fun surprises are in store for our students? A romance, fiction, sci-fi, or a non-fiction story?❤️📚 #SISD_Reads #SISDLibraries @DW_K8S #ColtNation

Fun times at Desert Wind today! Our students loved showing off their Mardi Gras floats inspired by their favorite book. Check out our Reading Mambo Book Float Parade! #ColtNation @DW_K8S #SISD_Reads #SISDLibraries

More than 63,000 students across Texas voted and the results are in! The winner of the 2024 Texas Bluebonnet Award is: The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale, written and illustrated by Charly Palmer. Congratulations! Read the full release: txla.org/news/the-2024-…

Reading counts! 📚

Book Blast begins today! All you have to do is invite 10+ friends and family members to earn 3 awesome prizes and a chance to win one of four Treasure Chests or an iPad! Visit (bookblast.booksarefun.com/DesertWindES79…) and unlock treasure. It takes just 7 minutes TONIGHT. @DW_K8S #SISD_READS

"Studies conducted over the past two decades, both in Colorado and nationwide, show that students in schools with endorsed librarians score better on standardized achievement tests in reading, compared with students in schools without endorsed librarians." AASL AISLEd

Awesome author visit! Thank you Phillip D. Cortez for visiting our Colts and sharing your gift of storytelling! 📖🌕💕 Marcy Sparks #SISD_Reads #NationalLibraryWeek #ColtNation @DW_K8S

Thank you #bookblast for providing our Colt students with so many wonderful books! Our students loved the selection and can't wait to start reading! #coltsnation #SISD_reads #bookblastadventures #giveliteracy Marcy Sparks @DW_K8S