Re: [LM_NET] TAR: Displays of books read

[Christine Rayl <cjrayl@YAHOO.COM>]

What about doing a school wide survey about books and reading, compiling the 
results and creating graphs of the results? While this isn't something you can keep 
adding to during the year it is a great way to start off the year. I've done it the 
last two years and the kids love reading the graphs, seeing favorite books, subject 
matter, and number of books read during the summer.

You could also take this same idea and alter it. For the graph, list titles or 
series (Junie B Jones, Captain Underpants, Nonfiction, E books, etc.). As students 
finish a book, they color in a small square at the base of that section (or you 
could use small pieces of construction paper with student's name on it) and 
students will have a visual idea as to what is being read, how many, and what the 
favorites are. The addition of having their name up makes it very attractive.

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


Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. 

Augustine Birrell


--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Sarah Loch <sloch@GRANDVIEW.K12.OK.US> wrote:

> From: Sarah Loch <sloch@GRANDVIEW.K12.OK.US>
> Subject: [LM_NET] TAR: Displays of books read
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 1:06 PM
> I work at a PK-8 school. I
> have several blank walls in the hall outside my library
> that I would like to decorate. I'm wanting to do some kind
> of display that students can add to as they read books
> throughout the school year. So far the only idea I've had is
> to create trees and have them put their name and the book
> they read on a leaf. I know some have done caterpillars, but
> the walls are sufficiently broken up with doorways, etc.,
> that I don't think that would work too well. Any other
> ideas?
> 
> Sarah Loch
> Library Media Specialist
> Grand View School
> Tahlequah, OK
> sloch@grandview.k12.ok.us
> 
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