Getting Your Books In Order And Keeping Them That Way!

Help your students easily sort books and get them back into their appropriate tubs by putting an easy-to-understand label on them.

Decide how you want to divide your books up, get tubs that are all the same size so that the shelves look neat and organized, make sure they are large enough to hold the various sizes of books, and deep enough to grow with you as your collections expand.

Pick categories that make sense and are easy for your students to understand.  Assign a color to them.  Buy color sticker dots at an office supply store and you're in business to get organized.

Print off a set of my labels and color the balloon to match your color-coding system. i.e. All math books have a yellow dot sticker on them. The Math tub has a yellow dot sticker and a yellow balloon.

There are a variety of tub labels to choose from, including a blank set to program with your own categories.

I’ve made labels for all of the months too, incase you keep those in tubs.

Because I have such a huge collection of books, I keep those at home in boxes that are the same size that I buy and label with the month.

I put the seasonal books that I read to my students next to my rocking chair on a wooden display rack.  These are rather expensive and include pop-up books, so I don’t let my students read these.

They have a large plastic tub at the head of the classroom that I dump anywhere from 20-50 seasonal books for the month in, for DARE time, as well as an option for Tummy Tubby Time, where they can use a beanbag.

Scholastic points, and going to a zillion garage sales and picking up books for dimes and quarters has helped me to grow quite a huge collection.

I just found this “personal reading space” idea on Pinterest from Mrs. Goerend's 5th grade class, and thought it was an awesome idea! How easy to tip a chair over, plop a pillow down and read in comfort! "Way cool!"

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