Perhaps the most important part of your reading curriculum is your classroom library! During Linda Dorn's conference in Little Rock, she shared characteristics of an effective classroom library:
* Goal: 300-600 books
* Minimum of 20 books per student
* Wide range of reading difficulty
* Variety of genres
* Variety of interests
* Books with appealing covers (yes, I know...no judging...but they do!)
Organizing your classroom library may take some trial and error. Simply Google or search classroom library on Pinterest and you can spend hours (or, even days!) viewing beautifully decorated and organized classroom libraries. It can get overwhelming! The ultimate goal, however, is to make your classroom library inviting and important to students.
When you step into your favorite bookstore, how is it organized? It's not by level...it's categorized in sections based on interest and genre. Linda Dorn suggested allowing students to classify books and create "sections" for your classroom library at the beginning of the school year.
Here are some links (click on the pics) to a few examples of great classroom organization and management:
This is the link to how one teacher uses an app to organize and maintain her classroom library.
HAPPY ORGANIZING! :-)
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