Teacher Interview Questions:

1. Does the school give you any resources for your classroom library? (Money, books, etc.)

     
No

2. Do you have certain rules or routines for the students while using the books from your                    classroom library?

They can only check out 4 at a time.  They can only check out during check out time on Friday,           unless there is a special circumstance.  They return books to a red box and I shelve them.

3. How is you classroom library organized?

By genres and categories

4. Where do you get most of your books for your classroom library?

     
Scholastic, Hastings, Amazon, Yard Sales

5. What reading programs does the school provide?

       
Journeys

6. How do the students check books out from your own personal classroom library?

     
They just get the book and put it in their book basket.

7. What do you think I need to know as a 1st year teacher?

     
Check out the daily 5 and how they organize their classroom library.  That video helped me a              lot. 

8. Do the students get both nonfiction and fiction texts? And do they have to read a certain amount        of these texts?

     
They can check out whatever they are interested in.

9. Do you have any procedures regarding your classroom library?

 I mentioned this in question 2

10. How has your classroom library evolved over the course of your years teaching?

     
 My checkout system is more laid back, because there is not enough time to accurately keep up             with books.

11. What online teacher resources do you recommend of use?

     
I’m not sure

12. Are the students required to read a certain number of books for you class?

  No

13. How do you get and keep students excited/interested in reading?

       
I talk a lot about books and authors and I do a lot of read aloud towards their interests.

14. Do parents help in any way pertaining to reading in your classroom?

     
They can read to my class anytime they want as a mystery reader.