[CASL-L] Realistic Non-fiction and Dewey

[Rocca, Jennifer]

I have not heard anything about this. We have a powerful non-reading
culture in our school so this is a big struggle for me. Our students do
research in the library but very few use our library for pleasure reading
of any kind.

My current thinking (and it could change easily) is to maintain a
biographies/memoirs section. Include in there the narrative kinds of
non-fiction that you think may draw students (even if, strictly speaking,
they don't quite belong there). Then work on rotating displays that
highlight some of the titles.

For *me* - this would be fully insufficient to get students reading. But
that is a culture problem. I think the plan itself is probably a valid one.

At least... I think that today...

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 9:24 AM Melissa Thom via CASL-L <casl-l at mylist.net>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Wondering if you heard back from anyone about this.  I have had the same
> thought--and I have taken some of the titles found in the 808s (Engle's
> books in verse) and moved them to various areas to encourage circulation.
>
> Melissa
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> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:00 AM Norton, Keely <KNorton at stamfordct.gov>
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>> Thought I'd reach out to the collective on this one. How do you catalog
>> your Realistic Non-fiction books?
>>
>> My fiction section is genrefied, but I'm considering putting Realistic
>> non-fiction into a section in the genrefied area because I don't think
>> these titles get as much circulation on the non-fiction shelves. For
>> example, Hidden Figures. The story is awesome, but most kids don't go look
>> in the non-fiction section for space/planets, etc. for a 'good book to
>> read'.
>>
>> I would appreciate your thoughts...
>>
>>
>> *Keely Norton *
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