Re: GEN:classroom libraries

[Guusje Zimmerman Moore <guusje@TENET.EDU>]

All my teachers have large classroom libraries and most of the books are
from the school library. Either the teacher comes in and selects the
books or they bring the kids in and let them have a say in what they want
included in the classroom collection.  Teachers can have as many books
checked out as the want and can keep them as long as they want, providing
they share it with any other teacher who wants it.

IMHO finding a book that 140 kids would all enjoy would be very
difficult, esp. considering varying reading tastes and abilities.  Why
not get magazine or newspaper subscriptions if they want everyone reading
the same thing?


                           Guusje Moore
                 Librarian, Housman Elementary School
                           Houston, Texas
                          guusje@tenet.edu