How are books such as the I Can Read Series : Daniel and the Lion's Den , Jesus is Born , Faith Gets Us Through catalogued for shelving. It seems to me that being placed together would be easier for children to find. I've been out of this a while so I'm just not up on this.
Thank you!
Sabrina J
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We have our "I Can Read" books on their own shelf with two divisions... fiction and non-fiction. We catalog them as: CE, then BEG, then Author initials for fiction. Then CE, BEG, C-number for non-fiction. We have a lot of homeschoolers who like to be able to find a specific beginning reader to go along with their studies. This way, they can find them on the shelf... and our teens who shelve books for us know exactly where they go.
We designate easy read books with a sticker, then place them in a round plastic container which is just kept in a corner. There is no order to them, and the children just look through them to select. Our shelf space for children's books is full and separating out in labeled containers helps. We have plastic boxes designated: American girl books, Heroes of the Faith, Bible stories, animals, Juvenile DVDs, etc.
the children's section in the library.
We recently changed our "I can Read" books and put them on a shelf together. However, we did divide them into 3 categories (using a different colored round dot on the spine) to indicate either - pre-school, 1-2 grades and advanced.
Barbara Brown
We are about to do this as well. I like the idea of the colored coded reading levels. Thank you for the insight.
Thank you. That is what I thought would work best for checkout purposes but I wanted to ask others who had experience.