Building An Effective Classroom Library. This post will focus on research based guidelines of an effective and well balanced classroom library. Building an effective classroom library.
Now if only you had a school library and a teacher librarian you could just involve students in selecting an ever changing class library from a well curated and diverse collection that could respond to their ever changing needs and interests and cater for the wide range of reading abilities in your class. Fortunately there are a few. Too many times the classroom library is a second thought to the establishment of classroom rules and the implementation of curriculum.
Too many times the classroom library is a second thought to the establishment of classroom rules and the implementation of curriculum.
In addition to being selective about the general quality of texts finding books that are culturally relevant to the lives of students in the classroom is an important factor in building a library that is reassuring and motivating for beginning readers. Place a card labeled with the book s title inside each pocket. Provide a central location for classroom resources. There are specific research based guidelines toward which you should aim when building your classroom library.
