I am on a Daily 5 Integration Adventure.
I am testing out these strategies with my class this year and preparing to dive in deep next year.
My class is currently practicing reading to self and reading to others. My students are doing GREAT!
They are loving it and I am loving it.
But... we have come to one problem... we lack books.
Do you have that problem too?
I organize my classroom books by units and put them out when we teach that unit. I do not want all put ALL those books out because that is a mess waiting to happen. (Plus, those books will not be meaningful and they would not be able to retell the story.)
My solution...
I am putting out the recent books for students to read and organizing them by units. I added pictures to the labels to help. After a few weeks, I will put the books away in their unit tub or sort in new easy readers. The students can still select their books, but I am setting them up for success. Plus, this is almost like the library organizes as well.
I have another whole self of open selection books too.
How do you organize your massive selections of books for your students?
Hi there, I just read your entry about setting up your classroom library for Daily 5. I, too, have been trying to decide what to do with all of my 'theme' books. Last summer I made the jump and pulled out all of my books and sorted them into marked bins. I spent a lot of time putting on corresponding stickers to each book. I have at least 45 bins of books. I love having my books handy for me to read during a specific theme but even more, I love having the students search for their special just right books for their read to self time. They do very well returning the books to their 'homes' as well. I have had no problem with them saying 'I've already heard that'. Most of the time it's 'I know another book that has that 'insect' in it can you read it?'
ReplyDeleteFor my read to self books I have a selections of decodables, the science readers that come with the curriculum & the reading series books that are from units we have already done. Also I have found the goodwill to have a great selection of easy readers for all levels of my kinders. I throw in some dollar store fun books that are above their reading level just so they can read the pictures & have fun with the princess or superman books! :) Hope this helps.
ReplyDeleteI organize my theme books just like you do - in bins that rotate into the class when we are studying that topic, and then back on the storage shelf. I also have some bins that stay our all year - I Can Read books (emergent readers), class books, rhyming, animals, fairytales/nursery rhymes/ Franklin/Robert Munsch/I Spy and general science books. I find every year that the kids' favourite books are the classbooks they have created themselves.
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For me, Read to self is a bag of decodable books in there desk. My school is big on differentiation and this is how I can show I am differentiating. Each child has a bag specifically designed for their needs. I change out there books about every 2 weeks...
ReplyDeleteWe started Daily Five and each child has a book box. They keep their Guided Reading book of the week in it, along with a song and poem book we glue in new poems throughout the year, recent Scholastic Let's Find Out magazines. They also have an alphabet chart they "read" at the start of the year. Then they are allowed 3 books from the class library. They may not be at their level but they can read the pictures, retell the story if they've heard it, or find words they now. Every Monday is book shopping and they trade their 3 books. They can also read song posters or our daily news that I keep posted.
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