A new Scholastic book order came today! The downside of that is the labeling required to get them ready for our library. So I thought I would share how I label books and if you have any brilliant ideas for simplifying this process....please share...or maybe this will help someone out there.
I organize as closely to how a library would as I can, so hopefully the skills that we practice in class, translate to students reading lives as they experience other libraries. For more info/pics see this post.
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| Geronimo Stilton book bin |
First, I have to look up the Lexile number of the book. Our district uses DIBELS :-( and I have a chart that correlates the ORF score with a lexile range. Inside the book, I write the lexile number and letter of the author's last name, so students know what book bin it belongs to. If the book belongs to a bin that is all one author, I write the author's name in addition to the letter.
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| C book bin |
After I finish the inside labeling of the books, I put a colored dot that coordinates with each lexile range on the side of the book. Students have a bookmark in their bag with the colors of their "just right" books. Then they use a chart on the wall to match up the colors on their book changing day.
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| Lexile chart |
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| Just labeling dots from office supply store. |
Then I display and show off the books for kids to get excited about and add to their book bags.
Happy Wednesday,
A new Scholastic book order came today! The downside of that is the labeling required to get them ready for our library. So I thought I would share how I label books and if you have any brilliant ideas for simplifying this process....please share...or maybe this will help someone out there. 
This is a great idea!! I did something similar when I taught Kinder - & boy do I love those stickers!!
ReplyDeleteMichelle
The 3AM Teacher
I use numbers. My library is organized in part by level and in part by genre. I post a master list of what is contained in each numbered bin, so students can find they level or type of book they're looking for. I did try colors, but they still got way more mixed up than they do now. My district isn't so strict about the leveling.
ReplyDeleteDillyDabbles
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ReplyDeletePencils with Pizzazz
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this post! I'm planning to do the Daily 5 next year, and in the past I've always organized my classroom library by book genre/series/type of book, but I'm kind of wanting to do a mix of that and Lexiles just to help make sure my students are reading more good-fit books. This post gave me some great ideas for doing that!
Kayla
Primary Junction
Hi Laurie
ReplyDeleteI love your Lexile chart. Would you happen to have a copy of it that I could use?