Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Lucile Kershaw Blog #2 Chapter 5 Organize an Outstanding Classroom Library Regie Routman
It is true that classroom libraries and books greatly improve reading achievement. Using the knowledge gained about our students' reading interests from reading inventories and observations helps us to build our classroom library. I have started building and organizing a classroom library with help from our reading coach and my students. The students are feeling some ownership by helping to classify, organize, and shelve the books. I especially want to target my struggling and reluctant readers by holding book talks, partner reading, and read a louds. As I evaluate my reading spaces within the classroom library, I want to make it attractive and easily accessible by having plants, a sofa, table with comfortable rolling chairs, baskets, book shelves, computers, a rug, lots and lots of books, and book racks. We are currently working on a book check-out system that will be easy to manage. I am thinking about rotating the job of being the librarian so the students will be instrumental in helping to keep the books in order and take more responsibility in caring for the books.
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Your kids would be awesome at book talks!! They have been so excited about reorganizing the classroom library. I'd love to see their reading inventories. You have some great ideas about making the library cozy and inviting students to share responsibilities in the maintenance of the library!
ReplyDeleteHi Lucile,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate you involving your students in reorganizing your classroom library. Sharing ownership of this space and the resources allows your students to assume more responsibility for caring for it but it also provides them with opportunities to access the books in it and that can only help promote their interest and engagement. I like the idea of a revolving classroom librarian job. Were there any ideas that Routman suggested in this chapter that you liked and wanted to try out? Any points that she made that you agreed/disagreed with? Thanks, Dawn