{"id":47,"date":"2011-09-05T20:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-09-05T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T04:04:47","slug":"a-classroom-library-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"A Classroom Library Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2596.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49\" title=\"IMG_2596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2596-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2596-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2596-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting mid-August I decided to reorganize my classroom library.\u00c2\u00a0 I had acquired new books from a teacher and from a favourite used book store, and decided that the time had come to sit in my classroom and assess the collection.\u00c2\u00a0 The result?\u00c2\u00a0 All of my classroom library books, as well as my literature circle books and my read-aloud books, are in a spreadsheet in alphabetical order.\u00c2\u00a0 The books that are not displayed on my blue library cart are stored in boxes according to the different literacy genres and labelled.\u00c2\u00a0 When I counted the books I had I was stunned: 336 books in my classroom library, and 127 literature circle books.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is what that looks like:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2595.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48\" title=\"IMG_2595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2595-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2595-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2595-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All neatly lined up for a photo op<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A quotation that I once stumbled upon while online states \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 I am inclined to agree with this statement.\u00c2\u00a0 If we want students to think that reading is important, then we have to show that we appreciate books.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping that when students come into the classroom they will notice the boxes of books, the shelves lined with my teaching resources, and my library cart filled with novels and non-fiction they have access to, and they will realize that reading is so much a fundamental part of their lives that it needs to have a prominent place in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The book a day challenge is complete, and I will write about it soon.\u00c2\u00a0 Until then, I hope everyone will be content with the final book title:<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 31st<\/strong>: <em>Crispin: The Cross of Lead<\/em>, by Avi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting mid-August I decided to reorganize my classroom library.\u00c2\u00a0 I had acquired new books from a teacher and from a favourite used book store, and decided that the time had come to sit in my classroom and assess the collection.\u00c2\u00a0 The result?\u00c2\u00a0 All of my classroom library books, as well as my literature circle books&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yfMi-L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somethingworthreading.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}