I was feeling very overwhelmed looking at my classroom library this year! Ugh! I know you all know the feeling. Last year, my library was organized by guided reading level. Since my school now has a book room with books categorized by guided reading level, I really wanted my students to be able to choose books by interest and genre this year. I began my search for book bin labels but was highly unsuccessful. Yes, there are so many cute and high quality book bin labels out there, but they all seemed to be made for lower grades. I just didn't have enough books in those categories. Most of my books were 4th, 5th, and 6th grade level chapter books. I decided that I just had to give in and make my own.
Yesterday, I organized all my books by genre so that I could visualize how many books I had in each category. I put post it notes on the baskets as temporary labels, so I knew which labels I had to make. Today, I made the labels! You can get them
HERE!
Those are just some examples of the labels. There are also several other chapter book labels (humor, action/adventure, realistic fiction, etc.) and reference labels. I ordered
these fabulous self-adhesive pockets to slide my labels in after I print them. The labels are 3 x 5 index card size and fit right in these pockets. They should stick on any box or basket!
I'm pretty excited about these and hope some other teachers who teach intermediate grades find them useful also. Students always need to be able to easily access literature!
-h
