BOOKISH THINGS

Three colorful metal Book Darts clipped over page edges to mark exact lines in an open book.
Book Darts don’t just save the page; they point to the exact line you wanted to come back to. They slide onto the edge without covering the words or leaving sticky residue, which makes them useful for professional books, lesson manuals, or books you don’t want to write in. I like to assign one color to each class and use them in our class read-aloud books, so there's never any debate about where we left off.
Teacher writing on a transparent orange sticky note placed over text in an open book.
I discovered these when the district I worked for invested in a brand new curriculum, rolled it out one day before school began, and then told us not to write in the books. Um...excuse me, my brain needs annotations. I like these because I can note the discussion questions I want to ask while teaching without having to shuffle sticky notes around just to read the words on the page.