How did you teach the children to self-regulate their reading levels?
My new Media Center previously put dots for AR levels on the spine of the
book. However, my new (approx. 1000) books do not have dots, but I have put
"Acc. Reader" on the spine. Was waiting for more time to put the dots on.
Now I'm wondering if I want to. It ticks me off when kids want to know
where the orange dot books are, or brag about what color dot they were last
year. So far, AR is not up & running as teachers need to do Star Reading to
get the levels, therefore buying me some time.
Sue Fox
Library Media Specialist
Jackson Elementary
Jackson, GA
sugarfox@bellsouth.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katherine Mayberry" <kmayberr@BELLSOUTH.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Shelving by book level WAS: Restricting areas of the library
> Wait a minute! With all of the reading levels keep in mind that ALA
> guidelines say NOT to shelve or indicate reading levels on the books. It
> is to keep from "labeling" the reader at a particular ability.
>
> Now that deals with the visible outside and shelving. Obviously the
> online catalogs or possibly the inside of books would not have the same
> problems.=20
>
> When I was at elementary level, I did have teachers restrict their
> students. One class of transitional 2nd graders were very upset when
> their teacher rudely told them that they weren't smart enough for other
> areas. She really made them mad and hurt them.
>
> After she breezed out, the class and I discussed the "problem". I had
> many of the kids since they were in K-4 and had taught them how to
> identify where things were and check to see if they could handle them.
> We agreed that perhaps they needed to demonstrate more "mature" behavior
> when coming to the media center and show her how responsibly they could
> handle the books. I agreed to discuss her "banned" areas with her. After
> 2 weeks she reluctantly agreed to let them go to other areas. They "had"
> to choose one everybody book, the other was up to them.
>
> The students "learned" several things from this incident... They also
> choose their books very carefully from the other areas (but most had
> been anyway) and felt vindicated.
>
> I did have K's and lst graders checkout from the picture books the first
> few times they came (K's longer), until they understood how to use shelf
> markers and had some intro about how to choose a book. After that I
> totally believe in free choice (esp if we have done our jobs in helping
> them to evaluate).
>
> Katherine Mayberry, Media Specialist
> Travelers Rest High School Media Center
> Travelers Rest SC 29690
> kmayberr@greenville.k12.sc.us
> =20
> Minds are like parachutes -=20
> they function best when open!
> =20
>
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