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Just wanted to get some thoughts on arrangement of library books. In the past I had books arranged by AR book level on the shelves at my PK-4 campus, and had a great circulation of books and good participation in the AR program.

This year I am at a 5/6 grade campus where all books are arranged by dewey. I have no problem with this except the kids seems to be lost when trying to locate a book on their reading level(within the fiction section). The have no problem locating books in the dewey section because they know what they want to read.

I was thinking about arranging the Fiction section by AR book level hoping this would help kids find books on their level and not be overwhelmed by all the books on the shelf. The Non fiction would remain in Dewey order.

I want to help the kids out by getting them to get books more readily on their level, but don't want to hinder the dewey usage as they will be using this skill when they leave my campus.

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Marty OThe books already have the color coding system on them;however, because the colors aren't separated a red dot book could be right next to a purple dot book. This is why I'm thinking of grouping like colors together and perhaps even having a shelf for say 4.2 and 4.3 etc.
Jan 10, 2011
Joy Because we are preparing our students for "the next step", I would never rearrange Dewey, fiction or nonfiction. All my AR books have one yellow dot that designates that they have an AR quiz and inside we've written the level and points. It may take them longer to locate books, but students investigate more of the collection and stretch their readi...See More
Jan 16, 2011
Rural Librarian Being at a 6-12 school, we have students at all reading levels. I would never sort by reading level. The older student that have very low reading levels could be embarrassed by having to go to the low level area. Even colored dots on the outside could draw unfavorable attention to the low level reader. We have placed an AR label on the spine. It ha...See More
Jan 16, 2011
the book level was written on the dot... I did NOT color code by level. Older students reading on a lower level were not easily recognized or embarrassed by the color of their label.

On 1/16/11, Rural Librarian wrote: > Being at a 6-12 school, we have students at all reading levels. I > would never sort by reading level. The older student that have very > low reading levels could...See More
Jan 20, 2011
Sue On 1/10/11, Kim wrote: > At my kids' elementary school, AR levels are given a color > code. The library is arranged using Dewey, but then each > book has it's AR color coded sticker on the spine also. The > kids learn to use Dewey, but can also quickly tell if the > book is in their AR range. It seems to work well. > > On 1/10/...See More
Feb 14, 2011


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