We have done color coding with stickers in the past…I need to update this system a bit! I keep mine by subject (science, art, history, history readers, etc.). I’m trying to reorganize many of our books into CM friendly categories (like poetry, nature study, art appreciation, shakespeare, etc.).
For fiction I have them divided into a few groups, mostly based on reading level:
- series books like Little House or Narnia
- early readers like Frog and Toad
- younger chapter books like Beverly Cleary
- jr high/middle school level books
- high school level books
- historical fiction is on another shelf sorted by time period
I also have a shelf of books I’d like to read aloud to them in the next year or two…many from the SCM literature modules. Picture books are on seperate shelves and not really sorted otherwise. Exceptions to this are our FIAR books and any holiday books.
Mine aren’t as organized as they could be, but I encourage them to read throughout the day and I want a pretty easy system to keep up with.