Library Lesson Activity | Dewey Decimal System Library Sorting Game

Need a fun library center activity to help explain your Dewey Decimal lessons? This sorting game features little make-believe books that I created to match the 10 Dewey categories (which are represented by cute, little bookshelf mats).

As your students sort through the book cards, they’ll be learning about the Dewey categories and discovering where to find books in your library media center. This Dewey Sort-a-Shelf game offers engaging, hands-on practice with a helpful chart as support. Here's how it works!

WORKING IN SMALL GROUPS, STUDENTS WILL:

✅ Choose one of the little book cards and read its title.

✅ Look at its cover illustration.

✅ Try to determine the book's topic.

✅ The group will discuss and decide which shelf would be the best match.

(I have a “Dewey cheat sheet” chart to help them as they sort.)
✅ The group will continue sorting the books and clipping them onto the shelf

mats until each one has been considered.

✱ Clothespins or Velcro can be used to help students attach the book cards to the correct shelves, 000 through 900. Of course, it’s fine to just let them stack the book cards on the correct shelf mats, too.

✱ Need to differentiate? -- This resource includes an easier fiction/nonfiction sort for younger students — and there's an extension activity for your older students as well.

OVER 1100 SOLD! LIBRARIAN FEEDBACK INCLUDES:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such a fun station to prep and use! Kids love it! Thank you so much!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a great way for me to review Dewey with my students. They can practice and I can do a quick assessment on their knowledge.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fun way for keeping kids engaged with the Dewey Decimal System!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We enjoyed this sorting activity and found it beneficial to learning the various Dewey categories. Having the guide for students to use is helpful.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this! Makes learning library skills fun and exciting!

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