Creating Your Classroom Library

Creating your classroom library is very important, there are many things that you need to take into consideration when creating it. You need to take into consideration the comfort level that students will get when being in your classroom library. Also you need to make sure that it is easy to get in an out of and should not be in a place where students are walking by constantly. Making sure that there are colorful posters and rugs in the library may motivate students to read. Make the library cozy by adding pillows, rugs, and bean bag chairs. Books need to be organized by authors, then the students will have the opportunity to being talking about authors. Using color coated bins are an easy way to organize books by themes, genres, or author. Organizing your books in levels will only create the students to pick books from their level. If the books are organized in a way with authors and themes the students will pick the book that is just right for them. Some categories that you could organize your bins into are pop-up books, number books, authors, genres, class made books, poetry, funny books, girl books, boy books, favorite authors and many many more. If the students have the opportunity to help organize the library this will give them some kind of ownership to the library and they may feel more comfortable going to it.