This has been an incredibly frustrating morning! First grade students that have been coming to the library since August still have no concept of finding a just right book. Plus, they have no desire to find a just right book because they have no intention of reading any book they choose from the library. I would guess that 3/4 of the books checked out to the 1st grade students sit in backpacks, in cars, in lockers and on home book shelves week after week after week.
The classroom teachers say they stress finding just right books, but when it comes right down to it THEY DON'T CARE WHAT IS CHECKED OUT FOR THEIR FUN READING!
Could it be that since Title I students are taken for their reading instruction during library time that the remainder of the students don't see the importance of reading for fun?

The one bright spot was a boy that has been turned on to reading after I introduced the author, Cynthia Rylant. He said that his dog likes listening to these adventures of a boy and his dog. !