[CASL-L] [EXTERNAL] Re: Biographies section question

[Sharon Rodko]

I organized our K-2 Biography section by type of person as well.  Students
didn't have a lot of schema about different people, but they knew they
wanted an inventor or musician.
We have

   - athletes
   - inventors/scientists
   - leaders
   - explorers
   - musicians
   - entertainers
   - authors

To help with shelving, we used these stickers (I had some funding).
Still working out some of the details, but seems to be going well.

Demco® Nonfiction Classification Label Sets - Biography
[image: image.png]
Demco® Genre Subject Classification Labels - Social Issues
I trimmed off "social issues"
[image: image.png]
We already had a sports genre sticker, but added these to help students
browse.
[image: image.png]
Had these already and used for Explorers.
[image: image.png]
Sharon Rodko, Librarian
Hurlbutt Elementary School
9 School Road
Weston, CT 06883
(203) 221-6310



On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:29 PM Laura Hedenberg <
lhedenberg at barkhamstedschool.org> wrote:

> I'm part of the genrefied group as well.  It has made a difference.  I
> also replaced many of my biographies with more up to date and visually
> pleasing ones for
> a unit in 2nd grade.  This helped as well.
>
> We use a lot of online resources including Epic Books and Fact Cite for
> biographies as well.
>
> Laura
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:14 AM Shannon McNeice via CASL-L <
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>> I have mine genrefied as well. The sports and music biographies circulate
>> like crazy.
>> The American History and World History are only used during the 8th grade
>> History Day Project, so I hang onto them...
>>
>> Shannon
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>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:02 AM Jenny Lussier <jlussier at rsd13.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all - I have also found that my biographies got checked out much more
>>> frequently when I organized them by type - sports, science/tech, historical
>>> figures, and entertainers/artists. I do have a miscellaneous category for
>>> people that don't quite fit, but it's been so much easier for my younger
>>> kids to browse and find people. I'm not sure if that would help at the
>>> upper grades or not, but it has definitely made a difference here. I just
>>> put a tiny colored dot on the spine.
>>>
>>> Jenny
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:06 AM Michele Lane <mlane at colchesterct.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good morning,
>>>>
>>>> I am working on weeding my biography section and thought I'd crowd
>>>> source my question. My biography section sits neatly on the shelf,
>>>> relatively untouched for the past 5 years. It contains different level
>>>> readability books on the same person. As these are not read, and
>>>> biographies are readily available online, my desire is to weed down based
>>>> on year published and last circulation. Does anyone have thoughts on why I
>>>> should keep multiple reading levels of these biographies?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> William J.Johnston Middle School
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