How do you create custom book collections?
Written by Elizabeth Carlson
Updated at June 4th, 2026
Why not select a collection of books to support a topic or subject being covered in class that you know will engage them? Giving students access to books that interest them will motivate them to read more.
Lesson preparation: creating shared collections
- Log in to your Reading Eggs Teacher Dashboard
- Select the Teacher Library
- Use the sliders to filter to the coloured books bands or Lexile levels for your students
- Search keywords linked to your topics
- Click on books that seem relevant – explore in more detail
- Click + to add the book to a collection
- When the collection has been created, select the collection in My Collections and click Share Collection
- Select students and date range for sharing.