This skill is helpful in schools where money is not available for hiring people to come in and shelve. My goal is to incorporate younger grades (3-4)in reshelving. This past year 5-8th grade learned how to reshelve. Due to the benefits of learning where books are located to reshelve; students are then able to easier locate books of a certain topic or by a particular author easier! :)
Excellent plan. I think the 3rd and 4th graders can learn it -- I did a series of classes with 4th grade on how to do the alphabetization for fiction, and they had it by the end. . .
I've seen this tutorial and game before, and it is a good one! I'm not sure about letting the students re-shelve their books. Sometimes they are such a hurry to get the next one, I'm not sure they would take the time to do it correctly. My predecessor at Stockbridge had trouble with her high school assistants re-shelving things wrong on purpose. I did have my 5th graders(in pairs) help me at the end of the year by reading the shelves for me before I did inventory. Some did well, others not so much. I thought it worked well for the fiction, but nonfiction was harder for them. But it is worth a try at least. Let us all know how it works out.
This skill is helpful in schools where money is not available for hiring people to come in and shelve. My goal is to incorporate younger grades (3-4)in reshelving. This past year 5-8th grade learned how to reshelve. Due to the benefits of learning where books are located to reshelve; students are then able to easier locate books of a certain topic or by a particular author easier! :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent plan. I think the 3rd and 4th graders can learn it -- I did a series of classes with 4th grade on how to do the alphabetization for fiction, and they had it by the end. . .
ReplyDeleteI've seen this tutorial and game before, and it is a good one! I'm not sure about letting the students re-shelve their books. Sometimes they are such a hurry to get the next one, I'm not sure they would take the time to do it correctly. My predecessor at Stockbridge had trouble with her high school assistants re-shelving things wrong on purpose. I did have my 5th graders(in pairs) help me at the end of the year by reading the shelves for me before I did inventory. Some did well, others not so much. I thought it worked well for the fiction, but nonfiction was harder for them. But it is worth a try at least. Let us all know how it works out.
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