Today I taught the I PICK lesson using different shoes. The lesson went well and most of the kids are ready to attack my classroom library. This has always been the hard part, teaching them how to select a book within limited time. Obviously, I don't want to rush them but we only have so much time available. It also seems like everyone needs books - even though I put 8 in their box before school began. Does anyone have the same trouble? Any idea? How is your student stamina going? Mine can make 10 minutes and we crumble. I don't know if the book selection is why or the attention span. Tell us about your class. We started work on writing today - 2 minutes. This is normal, third graders don't really know what to do right away, their stamina builds quickly! Are any of you to work on writing yet? Let's get the discussing rolling!
Happy Teaching!
Tammy
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I don't have enough books either! Last year I used a lot of CLIP books and the leveled readers from the reading curriculum. I was asked to use little or no CLIP books this year because they really need them. I did check out a CLIP kit, though, which will help a little.
Last year (and I think I'll do it this year) I had my students go book shopping once or twice a week from bins that I placed leveled readers in. I put one bin on each table and the table leader laid the books out so that they could be seen (while we did calendar). When the books were ready, the students shopped at their table for about 3 minutes. Then they went to the class library and chose one book that didn't have to be at their level because they could read the pictures, or retell the story (I put all their favorite read-alouds in the library). This year I'll color code my bins by levels to better accommodate the wide range of readers I have. I'll have students shop from a certain color bin. I hope it works!
I don't have enough books either! Last year I used a lot of CLIP books and the leveled readers from the reading curriculum. I was asked to use little or no CLIP books this year because they really need them. I did check out a CLIP kit, though, which will help a little.
Last year (and I think I'll do it this year) I had my students go book shopping once or twice a week from bins that I placed leveled readers in. I put one bin on each table and the table leader laid the books out so that they could be seen (while we did calendar). When the books were ready, the students shopped at their table for about 3 minutes. Then they went to the class library and chose one book that didn't have to be at their level because they could read the pictures, or retell the story (I put all their favorite read-alouds in the library). This year I'll color code my bins by levels to better accommodate the wide range of readers I have. I'll have students shop from a certain color bin. I hope it works!
I haven't leveled my classroom books...not enough time...yet. I have been using some of an older reading series leveled readers. Good ideas!
It has taken me years to establish my classroom library. I came up with a book shopping solution for my room....we all looked at our books and the ones that weren't a good fit were taken out and the ones that we could read and keep our stamina stayed. Then we laid them out on our desk and walked around window shopping...then we got to go to the books that we thought were interesting...and try the 5 finger test. Worked well for now until I train them how to use our library.
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