Hello!
Thank you for all the responses. There are so many ways this can be
done! I have decided to NOT use any labels, only placing a dot at the
top of each book, so that volunteers know these books are shelved in a
specific location.
I have just pulled all the Level Readers (the I Can Read Books). There
are also books called Beginner Books (i.e. Dr. Seuss). Should I pull
those, too???
J. Renee Thompson
School Librarian
Browne Academy
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
can't read them." - Mark Twain
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It will be interesting to see your response. I created a Easy Reader
section and I used red dots for my EARLY READERS and blue dots for my
EARLY CHAPTERS. Included in this section are the BEGINNING CHAPTERS.
All the books in this section have yellow dots. The beginning chapters
only have yellow dots.
The dots helped my clerk to shelve the books. I often refer to the
Early Readers as Red Dot Readers.
Taking it one step further:
I then levelled all my Early Readers and Early Chapters. Inside the red
or the blue dot I have a little with label that says either ER1, ER2, .
. . EC1, EC2.
You can see some pics of my books and labels at
http://amgrumm.spaces.live.com
Ann Marie Grumm
anniegii@yahoo.com
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I have those beginning to read with a colored spine label - just one
color. I don't believe in making a narrow level distinction because it
can harm the patron.
Alice L. Cyphers, Librarian M.L.S, M Ed, Reading Five Points Elementary
School
363 Five Points Richmond Road
Bangor, PA 18013
Washington Elementary School
381 Washington Blvd.
Bangor, PA 18013
cyphersa@bangorsd.org
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I do put a small dot on the tops of the spines to help prek-1 (and me)
pull and find book suitable for them. We also put a small dot on
beginning chapter books like Frog and Toad (first and second graders)
like "chapter" books.
Why would you want to dot for every grade level? That seems like a lot
of work! What are the benefits? Does your school do Reading Counts or
AR?
Theresa
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You may want to place the label inside the cover of the book. This way
the privacy of the student is not violated.
Bene e Pace (Blessings and Peace),
Paula Laurita
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Yes, we had yellow for the easiest, then blue was a general "picture
book" category (which I always thought was too vague), red for the next
level and green for the highest level which was 5th grade and up.
Since I always had a problem deciding what should go in "picture"
(blue), last summer we did a big re-organizing and sorted red, yellow, &
blue strictly by reading level. Our categories are now "PIC" for
picture, RL 0-2.9, INT =intermediate RL 3.0-4.5, and JUV=juvenile RL
4.6-8.9. I also listened to suggestions from other local librarians and
created a new category, "Easy chapter books" or E (as opposed to our old
EAS). This gave me a place to put the series, like Junie B. as well as
chapter books that were too easy for the JUV category. The kids love
it. Of course it helps that I have enough shelf space to re-arrange
everything. Too be really fair I should add that we had dropped the
colors several years ago, but the divisions were the same until last
summer. I do think if you have to have everything mixed together for
space considerations, the color code will be a big help.
Elizabeth Varley
Wilmington Montessori School
1400 Harvey Road
Wilmington, Delaware 19810
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Demco has alpha character labels in different colors. I am planning on
ordering them so that I can start leveling my collection. The last
catalogue I have from them is Fall, 2006. The labels are on p. 9 of that
catalogue.
Anne Howard
Teacher Librarian
Trinity School
Ellicott City, MD 21041
ahoward@trinitynews.org
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Please reconsider labeling the books with levels. It's free
advertisement for slow readers to get picked on. Everyone can see what
level of book they are reading.
Raynette Schulte
Young Adult Librarian
Watertown Regional Library
Watertown, SD
rschulte@watertownsd.us
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y advice is don't use colored dots for leveling. You'll find your
students begin to locate by color rather than call number. In the real
world - and that's what your teaching kids to function in - libraries
are not organized by colored dots or reading levels.
We learned in our 6-12 library that students rapidly forgot how to
locate items by call number when we labeled by colored dots. To remedy
the situation, we created leveled lists which included title, author,
call number and level. Since it was a database we could sort by any
category, add new titles and reprint, etc. We printed copies of each
leveled list, put it in a folder, and made them available to students.
We are now adding a 526 tag for AR information and a 521 tag for Lexile
levels to our MARC records. Students can search the library, note the
call number, and locate the book on the shelves. This also gives
students practice in using the automated catalog and using boolean
operators. We are moving to this in grades K-12.
Suzanne Bramlett
Librarian
Anthony ISD
Anthony, TX
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we have them just above the call number on the spine, we use single
colors for lower levels (ex. red o-1st grade, blue 1-2nd grade etc. That
way when we are teaching book parts, this is something they can
recognize.
Hope this helps.
Lourie
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My advice is don't use colored dots for leveling. You'll find your
students begin to locate by color rather than call number. In the real
world - and that's what your teaching kids to function in - libraries
are not organized by colored dots or reading levels.
We learned in our 6-12 library that students rapidly forgot how to
locate items by call number when we labeled by colored dots. To remedy
the situation, we created leveled lists which included title, author,
call number and level. Since it was a database we could sort by any
category, add new titles and reprint, etc. We printed copies of each
leveled list, put it in a folder, and made them available to students.
We are now adding a 526 tag for AR information and a 521 tag for Lexile
levels to our MARC records. Students can search the library, note the
call number, and locate the book on the shelves. This also gives
students practice in using the automated catalog and using boolean
operators. We are moving to this in grades K-12.
Suzanne Bramlett
Librarian
Anthony ISD
Anthony, TX
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we use the little stars. Most schools stock them so they are something
that is readily availible and easy for the younger ones to identify with
Lourie Hostetler Dunbar Township/Dunbar Borough Elementary Libraries
Connellsville, PA 15425
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Colored dots do work pretty well. We did that until I got more shelves
and could make different groupings that way.
Elizabeth Varley
Wilmington Montessori School
1400 Harvey Road
Wilmington, Delaware 19810
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Make a separate section. I marked my beginner books with a "+" just
because I couldn't think of anything else. But for the little ones it
is somuch easier if they are in a separate place. Rebecca Shields
I made new address labels (I also call them book addresses, not call
numbers-- you know, the address is where the book lives) so a typical
one woud be "+ BYA" instead of "JF BYA." And I called it the fabulous
chapter book section. Rebecca
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