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Since the library at my school is only classroom-size, there is no way that
I can set up special collections.  One thing that I do, however, is to put
the easier AR books in baskets on a table, especially at the first of the
year as the second graders in particular are just learning how to select
books on their grade levels.  I do not put the grade level on the already
overcrowded spine, just an AR label.  The reading level and point
information is put on the top right-hand side of the flyleaf and I teach the
students how to find their levels.  However the younger children do get
frustrated so this way is easier for them.  I put both fiction and
non-fiction AR books in the baskets.  This has worked well and has
eliminated the problem of the student returning to the library to exchange
books because he or she has checked out one that it too advanced for AR
testing.

As the students improve their reading and go on to harder books, they will
go to the regular shelves to select AR books on their levels. The teacher
asks that the student check out at least one AR book and their second or
third books can be any book that they want to try to read.  If I see that a
book is way to advanced for them, I ask them to select another one.

I also put easy readers and books with few words on a cart for kindergarten
and first grade students who are still learning to read.  They are not
restricted to this cart, but many like it because they know that they can
actually read these.

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Madeline L. Buchanan
Library Media Specialist
W. J. Christian School (K-8)
Birmingham, AL
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"The imagination should be allowed a certain
amount of time to browse around."
--Thomas Merton
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