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Creating and Instructional Resource Room

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The Learning Network Offers a Powerful Two-Day Inservice An instructional resource room is a centrally located area that houses all of a school’s instructional reading materials, including enlarged texts, books, and audiocassettes. Relocating the school’s reading resources in a central area means they can be organized and stored in a way that gives teachers easy access to a much wider range of material.  Why develop an instructional resource room? Organizes, provides structure & leveling for emergent, early,       fluent, and proficient readers Gives teachers easy access to wider variety of material Helps focus expenditures (school discovers the gaps) Provides for systematic monitoring of student progress Increases resources available based on school need Purchase the best books from all sources. Teachers learn about supports and challenges in texts to determine the levels and suggested approaches of books already in the school’s collection

K-2 Collection: Books for students in grades K-2 are shelved by the approaches of shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading.  Teachers organize books by nine levels of difficulty that correspond to the broad stages of reading development. Grade 3 and Up: The books for students grades 3 and up are leveled according to the conceptual development of the reader. Across time, students revise their concepts as a result of new learning and new experiences. Inservice cost: $2500.00 plus travel-related expenses for the inservice coordinator:  Price includes Two full days of support from an experienced Learning Network coordinator One single copy set of Books for Young Learners – 168 titles –       a $672.00 value! Mixed samples of middle grade books Instructional Resource Room School Kit – a $30.00 value  SCHOOL KIT CONTAINS “Managing an Instructional Resource Room” packet – reproducible master for faculty room managers (includes inventory worksheets on disk and masters for making leveling bar posters & more book labels) K-2 Books for Young Learners leveling bar – ten sheets of 30 labels each Middle Grades leveling bar – ten sheets of 30 labels each Twelve K-2 Table Signs for sorting materials Eight Middle Grades Table Signs for sorting materials “Creating an Instructional Resource Room” packet – reproducible master1       for all participants Creating an Instructional Resource Room 12-minute videotape One single copy set of Books for Young Learners and assorted middle grade books to be used as benchmark book What you need to provide for the instructional resource room itself: a designated space of 200 square feet or more with at least 180 linear feet of standard shelving installed cardboard magazine boxes (enough to house three to four sets of books in each) 40 to 50 plastic tubs for independent book boxes (15-quart size) a substantial inventory of Books for Young Learners and School Journals – we recommend 18 copies of each BYL title

What you need to do before the inservice: Select a group of several individuals (at least two) to work as instructional resource room managers. Some experience with book leveling is helpful but not required. Give the room managers their packet and disk, leveling bar stickers, and table signs. Arrange for appropriate meeting and release time for the faculty. Have the faculty watch the videotape. Make enough copies of  the pages from the “Creating an Instructional Resource Room” packet for all participants indicated by the inservice provider. Have teachers place all reading materials from their classrooms in the work area alphabetically by title. Have a volunteer place like titles together and band in sets of six  What you need to provide during inservice days: flipchart on easel and markers overhead projector and screen VCR and monitor(s) pens and self-stick notes state and district standards and curriculum tables and chairs for faculty working in small groups, plus ten tables for sorting books one to two copies of Text Forms and Features by Margaret Mooney

 

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