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  I recently spent two weeks with a colleague that works at the elementary level. She'd just completed the most amazing project, organizing her nonfiction books into easily browsable genres. I love creating graphics, so with her input, I designed shelf labels and signs for 78 different nonfiction genres and 11 fiction genres.  If you'd like to purchase these genre labels and signs, you can buy them via my Teachers Pay Teachers store. The resource includes 78 nonfiction and 11 fiction labels in two different sizes: 8.5" x 11" and 2" x 4".  For a quick crash course in creating your own labels, keep reading! The first thing you're going to need is a  Canva account , preferably a Pro account or an Education account, to ensure you have access to ALL the photographs. Remember, education accounts are FREE for K-12 teachers. With Canva open, you'll click on "Custom Size" in the upper right hand corner, and then enter your dimensions. In my examp...

I decided this summer that it was time to overhaul my library genre signs. We have signage in place, but you can't read the labels from across the library, and they're just words - no images to support the text.  I looked for pre-made genre signs, but everything felt elementary or boring, and I was looking for something with a little more style. To meet my needs, I ended up creating a set of my own genre posters for the following 15 sections: horror, sci fi, comics & manga, realistic fiction, adventure, teen, thriller, poetry, romance, historical fiction, mystery, sports, fantasy, humor, and classics.  If you're short on time, and you want to purchase these pre-made genre signs as a printable PDF file,  they're in my TPT store.   The PDF gives you access to 15 different genres, along with a second set of signs that includes a description of the genre on each sign, for a total of 30 signs. Here's what the signs look like with added genre descriptions: I'm goi...