Re: Shelving by book level WAS: Restricting areas of the library

[Brook Berg <booklady@UNITELC.COM>]

Elaine

I think you misunderstood.  In the middle school I would NEVER arrange the
books by level in a middle school.  Again I direct you back to my mission
"My personal mission as a media specialist is to teach students and teachers
to be wise consumers of information. "

It does students NO good (beyond the primary levels) to artificially arrange
information for them and I would not do that.  I firmly believe in teaching
students to find information they way it is in "the real world."  With that
said - It does not take away from the fact that a book may be filled with
Fabulous information, but will be useless if it written at a level to
difficult for the reader.

What I meant was to write the RL on the inside book cover so that students
will more wisely be able to choose books that they can successfully read.




~^~
Brook A. Berg
Media Specialist
ISD 22
Detroit Lakes Middle School
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
bberg@detlakes.k12.mn.us

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