What's the difference between Fiction and Junior Fiction?
Fiction
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Use the fiction books on display for a discussion.
For years you have borrowed from the Junior Fiction boxes and then you could borrow from the Fiction shelves or the Fiction trolley. They are all fiction. What does that mean? However, what is the difference between them? We do have some picture books that are fiction. Why are these ones not Junior Fiction? Why would they not be suitable for younger children? |
Junior Fiction
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Activity
Children sit in a circle.
Hand out a fiction book to each child.
Go around the circle asking each student to say the author's last name and the first three letters of the author's last name.
Swap books and repeat a couple of times. Have the children hold their book and stand in alphabetical order, according to the author's last name.
In libraries the author's last name is how we organise the books. In the Junior Fiction boxes all the authors' whose last name begins with W are in the W sections. Show other examples.
However on the Fiction shelves we are more exact than in the Junior Fiction boxes and we put the books in alphabetical order according to the author's last name. Can you put these names in alphabetical order (There are flashcards of these made on the easel).
Roald Dahl
Enid Blyton
Thea Stilton
Emily Rodda
Jeff Kinney
Andy Griffiths
Sally Rippin
J.K. Rowling
Gabrielle Lord
Gabrielle Wang
Hand out a fiction book to each child.
Go around the circle asking each student to say the author's last name and the first three letters of the author's last name.
Swap books and repeat a couple of times. Have the children hold their book and stand in alphabetical order, according to the author's last name.
In libraries the author's last name is how we organise the books. In the Junior Fiction boxes all the authors' whose last name begins with W are in the W sections. Show other examples.
However on the Fiction shelves we are more exact than in the Junior Fiction boxes and we put the books in alphabetical order according to the author's last name. Can you put these names in alphabetical order (There are flashcards of these made on the easel).
Roald Dahl
Enid Blyton
Thea Stilton
Emily Rodda
Jeff Kinney
Andy Griffiths
Sally Rippin
J.K. Rowling
Gabrielle Lord
Gabrielle Wang
Put these spine labels in Alphabetical Order
Put the children into groups of 2 or 3. Hand out the packets of pretend spine labels and have them put the labels into alphabetical order.
Check to see if they are all correct.
Check to see if they are all correct.
Move out to fiction area
Sit in front of the Fiction shelves A, B and C.
Show the students how the shelves are arranged in A B C order going from left to right and top to bottom.
Use a shelf marker to demonstrate taking out a book from a shelf.
Read the spine label. It will be the three letters of the author's last name on the spine (see the photo here KOR) and on the front of the book it will be F KOR (For example).
As a class, ask some volunteer children to go and find the following to demonstrate to the the class what they need to do.
Show the students how the shelves are arranged in A B C order going from left to right and top to bottom.
Use a shelf marker to demonstrate taking out a book from a shelf.
Read the spine label. It will be the three letters of the author's last name on the spine (see the photo here KOR) and on the front of the book it will be F KOR (For example).
As a class, ask some volunteer children to go and find the following to demonstrate to the the class what they need to do.
- Mr Badger and the Big Surprise by Leigh Hobbs
- The Horse Who bit a Bushranger by Jackie French
- The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
- A Ghost in my Suitcase by Gabrielle Wang
- The Battle for Rondo by Emily Rodda
Test each other!
Put the children into pairs. Give them a few minutes to each go and find 3 books and write down the author and the title of the book on the paper provided. Swap sheets and see if the partner can locate the book that is on the paper.
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