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| Creating and Sustaining an Effective Classroom Library | |
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| The Growing Importance of the Classroom Library | |
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| The Place of the Classroom Library in a Balanced Reading Program | |
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| Five Major Functions of the Classroom Library | |
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| Planning Your Classroom Library | |
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| Determine the Nature of the Collection | |
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| Establish the Size of the Collection | |
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| Build Your Collection | |
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| Use the Collection for Responses to Reading | |
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| What an Effective Classroom Library Looks Like: Organization and Layout | |
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| Organize to Help Accomplish Your Major Goals | |
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| Other Criteria and Practices for Organizing the Classroom Library | |
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| Helping Children Make Successful Book Selections | |
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| What Children Do When Selecting Books | |
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| Four Book Selection Strategies | |
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| Factors That Influence Book Selection | |
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| Personal Valuing | |
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| Physical Characteristics | |
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| Topics or Themes | |
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| Genre and Author Preference | |
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| Personal Recommendations | |
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| Character Knowledge | |
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| Displays and Read Alouds | |
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| Arranging Your Classroom Library to Guide and Influence Children's Book Selection | |
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| Label Shelves | |
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| Post Directions | |
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| Display Books With Covers Facing Out | |
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| Use Posters and Whiteboards | |
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| Use Chart Pads for Showing Connections Among Books | |
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| Organize Books Logically | |
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| Set Up Books at Children's Eye Level | |
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| What You Can Do to Give Children Appropriate Strategies for Book Selection | |
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| Ensuring Equal Access for All Students | |
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| Getting to Know the Library | |
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| Book Talks | |
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| Finding a Book to Read | |
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| Checking the Reading Level | |
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| How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading to Children? | |
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| Why We Should Read Aloud to Children in the First Place | |
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| Some Historical Perspective | |
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| Interactive Read-Alouds | |
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| How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading With Children? | |
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| Use Your Classroom Library to Make Shared Reading Come Alive | |
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| What Is Shared Reading? | |
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| How to Conduct a Shared Reading or Shared Book Experience | |
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| Put the Classroom Library at the Core of Shared Reading | |
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| Use Your Classroom Library to Make Guided Reading Come Alive | |
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| Primary Grades | |
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| Intermediate Grades | |
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| Gather Guided Reading Books to Provide That "Just Right" Match | |
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| Put Books at the Core of Intermediate-Grade Mini-Lessons | |
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| Put Books at the Core of Intermediate-Grade Literature Response Group Meetings | |
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| Use Your Classroom Library to Make the Reading-Writing Connection Come Alive | |
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| Writer's Craft Mini-Lessons | |
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| Use Your Classroom Library to Make the Reading-Writing Connection Come Alive | |
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| Use Your Classroom Library to Reinforce Reading and Language Instruction | |
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| Word Solving | |
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| Finding the Important Information | |
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| Making Predictions | |
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| How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading by Children? | |
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| Why It Is Important for Students to Participate in Voluntary Reading | |
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| How Motivation for Voluntary Reading Is Influenced by Ready Access to Books | |
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| The Role of the Classroom Library in Motivating and Supporting Voluntary Reading | |
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| Focus on One Factor in an Effective Classroom Library: The Element of Student Choice | |
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| Determine Students' Interests | |
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| Include Books That Represent All Genres | |
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| Include Books That Represent Cultural and Ethnic Diversity | |
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| Integrate the Classroom Library and Instruction That Supports Independent Reading | |
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| Selected References | |
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| Selected Children's Books | |
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| Independent Reading Management Forms | |