Re: [LM_NET] Official classification of Easy Books

[Christine Rayl <cjrayl@YAHOO.COM>]

You ask a great question! E books have been called "easy" when in actuality many of 
them are written at a 4-8 grade level. I like to call them Everybody books...
As for you indicating them as fiction, you are correct if that is all that is 
there. What about prefacing it, Easy Fiction? Kids will latch onto the word 'easy' 
and then realize it is the fiction section. For those "E" books that are 
nonfiction, you could lable them in some way so they stand out from among the other 
nonfiction. I've been known to pull them and create displays, use a roving cart, 
etc. While the students would rather I just clumped the E books together regardless 
of fiction/nonfiction, I don't do that. I want kids to know the difference.

Good luck this coming year! It can be a lot of fun and don't stress if you don't 
get to do everything that you want right away. That was a trap I fell into.

Christine Rayl, Librarian
Bowie Elementary School
Grand Prairie ISD, TX

cjrayl@yahoo.com
Book reviews: http://childrens-bookspot.blogspot.com/



--- On Sat, 7/19/08, Audrey Alsobrook <alsobrook@CHARTER.NET> wrote:

> From: Audrey Alsobrook <alsobrook@CHARTER.NET>
> Subject: [LM_NET] Official classification of Easy Books
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 10:18 AM
> I can't believe I'm asking this, but I am a new hire
> to a 1-5 library, and I 
> wanted to have the fiction/non-fiction sections clearly
> marked.  Over the 
> easy section, I put the heading FICTION, since all of the
> non-fiction books 
> are with the non-fiction section.  I had a teacher ask me
> where was I going 
> to re-locate the Easy books, and I tried to explain that
> they were fictional 
> books, so they were in the right place.  She gave me that,
> "Hmmmm.....okay" 
> look.  Am I right or should I have made the letters say
> EASY?  They are 
> heavy metal letters that were $10 per one, and I drilled
> holes in the wall 
> to mount them, so I'm really hoping I'm in the
> right here.  Help!
> 
> Audrey Alsobrook
> Ogletree Elementary
> Auburn, Alabama
> alsobrook@charter.net 
> 
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