Re: Dewey Decimal System in the classroom

http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/ click
on classroom library, then click on the red block where it
says: Click here to read more about how the books are
organized and leveled! On the Library Organization, you
will find a link for her labels ready to print in the black
box half way down the page.

As a Media Specialist, I would not suggest getting too
detailed in the classroom on non-fiction. You might take the
labels above and add the general Dewey number such as Sports--
700's or very popular topics as in Dinosaurs--567.9.

On the E (Easy) picture books, You might have bins/baskets
with the E at the top and the most popular authors such as
Seuss, Brown, Osborn, Parks, etc. Others I think I would
just label Easy with A-C, or Easy K-N

I always have thought as long as they know that there is a
system in the library, and that the Fiction books are by
author and the non-fiction are by subject for 2nd grade that
is great. Hopefully your school library has good labeling to
assist them in finding items. I also used a stuffed Arthur
near the Arthur books, Lily near Henkes, as well as general
subject headings on the end caps of the Non-Ficiton.

Hope this helps...and yes you could label the books to match
the bin label.

On 6/15/09, JG wrote:
> Hello. I am hoping for some input on reorganizing my
> classroom library. It has gotten somewhat out of control.
> I am thinking about making labels with an address similar
> to Dewey Decimal labels and creating a database for the
> books.
>
> I teach 2nd grade so it would be somewhat simplified but I
> think it will help my kids when then go to the library find
> their books also. I currently have baskets of series,
> favorite authors, subjects ect. but it doesn't translate to
> the libray. In the classroom if they want to read Kevin
> Henkes, they know where to find him. It takes my kids much
> longer to realize that in the library they would go to the
> E (Everybody) section and look under H for Henkes.
>
> JG