In this post you will learn how to easily allow your students to help set up your classroom library.
My first year in the classroom my kids rarely touched my books. I had books that I would share with them every month or few weeks, but I guarded SO many books with my life. What? Give their sticky, lunch covered fingers my books?
No way!
I was SO naive. I had so much to learn. When I peeked inside other classroom I wasn’t seeing other teaches releasing all of their books to their kids. I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.
Until I learned better. I knew I needed to let my kids use my books. I wanted them to enjoy them. I desired for them to own them, too. Part of owning them meant helping to organize them and create a system for them.
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Gather several books that are alike in some way. Stick to two topics–space and human body.
Have the students sort them and identify two topics.
Allow a student to use a notecard and illustrate the topic and write the word. This is the book tub label.
Do this several times and then go back to a set of books and ask kids if they think they need to be divided even more! For example, ocean animals and farm animals!
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