Blog #4

         I don’t have a lot of experience with classroom libraries but I do remember in high school when we did have a kind of classroom library. The book says that magazines are also considered appropriate books in the classroom library. When I was in our class, we have a project that required magazines. In this project, we had to find magazines with pictures that interested us and cut them out. We were making a big collage poster. This was a great project to use classroom libraries because we had to go through magazines and search for pictures and phrases that we liked. This project was great because it made students read.
        It is very important that teachers acquire books related to their content area because this would be another way that students can learn about their subject. A lot of the students can learn from only their textbook. Having other books, that may interest students, will lead them to read books about the same content and understanding it better. This motivates the student to learn.
        My content area is physical education which means that I would have books related to sports. I feel that having sports book in my classroom would help motivate the students who are not physically active. After reading a book, they may feel inspired to re-create or be like the characters in the book. I believe that after reading sports books the students will also have more sports literacy. One of the ideas I liked about the book was that it gave a great example on how to be resourceful and acquire books at book sales, garage sales, and book clubs.