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By Sarah Giblin and Melissa Shulman

Welcome to your Classroom Library!. By Sarah Giblin and Melissa Shulman. SCHEMATICS. http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classroombooks/printrich_35.htm. HOW TO SET UP YOUR LIBRARY SPACE.

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By Sarah Giblin and Melissa Shulman

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  1. Welcome to your Classroom Library! By Sarah Giblin and Melissa Shulman

  2. SCHEMATICS • http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classroombooks/printrich_35.htm

  3. HOW TO SET UP YOUR LIBRARY SPACE “An effective classroom library should support your literacy instruction, provide a comfortable place for students to talk about and interact with books, and be a central location for classroom resources.” (Adapted from Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power, by D.R. Reutzel and P.C. Fawson (Scholastic Teaching Strategies).)

  4. WHERE TO GET CORE • What type of books should be included in a classroom library? “Be choosy. Build your collection slowly. Children should be reading well-written books that promote thinking and have believable, compelling characters who talk the way real people talk and do the things real people do.” --Debbie Miller, Reading With Meaning, 2002, p.47 • Where to acquire core is on your hand out (from: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4136)

  5. WHERE TO GET SUPPLIES • http://www.thelibrarystore.com/index.jsp Sells all kinds of library supplies from book repairing to carts and furniture • Stores going out of business might sell you their shelves • Paint finds from flea markets or garage sales • Buy rugs from sales, or buy carpet samples from a carpet store • Get a stamp to stamp all your books with your name: http://www.crstamp.com/

  6. ORGANIZING YOUR LIBRARY • Learn from bookstores - market your books • Rotating displays • Switch it up to support students’ book choice and engagement • Highlight less-frequented genres • Adjust to support your purpose • Decide how you want to label (Adapted from Still Learning to Read: Teaching students in grades 3-6 by Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak)

  7. BOOK BASKETS • Authors • Non-fiction books • Favorite series • New books • Books we’ve read together • Class picks • Read-aloud connections • Favorite characters • Topic sets • Books written in letter or journal form • If you like______, you might like… • Award winners • Newspaper and magazine articles • Graphic novels • Comic books • Books on tape • Read-with-a-friend • Student-made books • Poetry • Leveled

  8. A NOTE ON LEVELING • There are pros and cons to displaying leveled books in the library • Make levels visible on less than half of books • Give readers the responsibility of choosing appropriate books • Challenge students and provide range of books • No books (or children) are off-limits! • Assigning books to levels - Fountas and Pinnell, DRA, Lexile http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classroombooks/browse_level.asp

  9. HOW TO HELP KIDS PICK BOOKS • The Five-Finger Rule • The Goldilocks method • BOOKMATCH • “Teaching book-selection strategies supports literacy skill development.  Students learn strategies that they can use when they encounter any book…by teaching these strategies, teachers are supporting their students in becoming independent readers in and out of the classroom.” http://myclassroomlibrary.com/articles/book-selection/teaching-book-selection-strategies

  10. OWNERSHIP • Jobs with the library: librarian, individual responsibility, teacher’s responsibility • Lending: will you allow students to take home books? • Book bins, book bags, clothes pins on bins idea, checkout clipboard, buy a scanner http://www.collectorz.com/book/ • Respecting books

  11. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS • Write book reviews • Recommend books to other students • Keep journals/ logs • Call XPN radio, post reviews on http://www.kidscorner.org/html/kidsreviews.php or http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/ • Make commercials like Reading Rainbow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkqWPkPTKA&feature=watch_response

  12. LESSONS FROM THE LIBRARY • Browsing Box, Word Detective, Vocabulary Wizards, Word Wall • Author, Character, and Theme Studies • Language/Text Conventions • DEAR and SSR • A Field Guide to the Classroom Library by Lucy Calkins and the Teacher College Reading and Writing Project

  13. GO ONLINE! • Let the Teacher Book Wizard show you the way… http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do

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