Are you a first year teacher? Or just frustrated with your classroom library organization? You’ve come to the right place then. Learn how to organize your classroom in an easy way for your students to visually see and pick up books; plus help students take ownership and put books away on their own.
My secret little weapon is using these library labels. You place stickers on the spine of each book and a matching label on the book bin. This helps students know exactly where to find the book they are looking for and where to put it away again. If book bins are not your thing, you can also place the coordinating book sticker on the shelf itself so students can see the area that those books are found in.
I personally like to have my classroom library organized by both reading level and topic. This way students can find books they are interested in by topic as well as books that are on their reading level. These labels can be purchased either bundled with both topic and reading levels or separately.
The following reading levels are provided:
- -Fountas & Pinnell
- -Accelerated Reader (AR)
- -Lexile
- -Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
If you want to make any adjustments to the labels feel free. These are EDITABLE and tutorials are provided so you know exactly how to edit them or make your own to match. The color coding for the reading levels can even be adjusted. Edit them to fit your classroom!
You can also choose the size that you want each book bin label to be. They are set to fit one per page, but you can request to print 2 per page, 4 per page etc. The labels pictured were set to print 6 per page. Because they are made 1 per page, this makes it easy to pick and choose what labels you want printed without wasting paper. Whoooo!!
The labels are set to print on avery labels #8160. You will need to purchase these in order for the stickers to align correctly when printing. Here is a link to the labels I purchased to print on.
Once you have everything printed, I would suggest laminating the labels and placing packaging tape over the book spine stickers to ensure durability. Then you are all set. You will love the way this helps to increase functionality in your classroom and increase students’ interest in your library.
Interested in downloading these organizational library labels?? Click below.
