The Book Room!!

We are lucky enough at Rosemore to have an amazing bookroom! Because of that, other schools have asked to see what it looks like and how it is set up! Here is my attempt at giving you a tour of our bookroom!
This is the view from when you first walk in from the hallway. It is a regular classroom size room. There are three tables that are used for PD.

This is the only bulletin board in the room. We use this to recognize the staff that participate in the PD. The left side is divided into four sections: 6th, 7th, 8th and unified arts. I use the right side to post pictures of the staff or examples of Marzano strategies in action. Under the bulletin board is a shelf with baskets. The baskets each hold a different type of Thinkmark that the teachers can use in their classes. The colored paper on top of the shelf is used in Writer's workshop and is used as draft and final draft paper.

The majority of the bookshelves in our bookroom contain small sets of books that can be used for guided reading or literature circle sets. They are leveled based on the Fountas & Pinnell guided reading leveling system. We have over 1000 sets of books. Each set can have 4-8 copies of a book. The levels covers all ranges, interests, and abilities.

This is the view from behind my desk. This shows you the three different rows of book shelves with leveled baskets.

The bookshelf on the left contains two rows of author books that are used for author talks or author studies. The bookshelf on the right is filled with picture books that are grouped according to genre or topic.

The first two bookshelves on the left set an example of what a classroom library should look like. Each of our language arts classrooms has 250 or more books. The last bookshelf contains author sets that can be used along with the author talks or studies.

Finally, this is an example of a teacher resource shelf. There are four of these in the book room. This one contains poetry resources and small sets of teacher books that can be used in book studies or PLTs.

Hope you enjoyed the bookroom!! We certainly are proud!