JP Pohl   Blog #1
Routman--Chapter 5 Organizing and Oustanding Classroom Library

I started with this chapter because I am still trying to organize my classroom library because it is a hot mess. I really wanted to see if the chapter could advise me how to organize the tubs in a less stressful but simpler way.

I am currently in the process of trying to make it inviting as I have completed a Donors Choose grant in hopes of obtaining cushions that the children can move around the room so that they may enjoy independent reading. I have made a bookshelf to display and attempt to entice my students to read more. I have the usual tubs: fiction, non-fiction, animals and holidays. I never thought about magazines or comics being included into book tubs so that is my take away; create a tub to store comics and magazines.

I was so glad to read about "light reading". I knew of "light reading", for me, but never expressed my thoughts or allowed my students to enjoy this type of reading because I always thought the students needed to be submerged into new texts. When I read this I thought about my reading and how for the last couple of years, I have started my summer vacation by reading "Beach Music" by Pat Conroy. I absolutely love, love, love this book. Even though I know what's going to happen, I still laugh and cry at certain parts. And to think if I like to read the same story over and over, how do you think the students are going to feel when they can successfully read a story from beginning to end. What better way to build a confident reader!

This was a great chapter with awesome information.