Lesson Plans for the Busy Librarian


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Suggests learning activities for developing library skills, such as researching a topic, finding books on the shelves, and acting out stories.




Elementary Library Lesson Plans


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Elementary librarians! Enjoy a stress-free library class with these universal copy-and-go lesson plans. This lesson plan book is designed to save you time. Instead of spending hundreds of hours crafting lesson plans and student worksheets, you can easily customize the included lesson plans and worksheets in minutes. Just photocopy and you are done! There are three keys to library class success: - Awesome lesson plans - Awesome student worksheets - Awesome library cards AWESOME LESSON PLANS These kindergarten through sixth-grade lesson plans are designed to meet Common Core State Standards and AASL Standards while maintaining the flexibility to customize them with local standards. With these universal lesson plans, you merely adjust the complexity of the lesson according to the student's ability level. By using this book, you will cover all essential library topics. AWESOME STUDENT WORKSHEETS These child-friendly designs make learning about library resources exciting. You will find drawing activities, puzzles, vocabulary exercises, book reports, and more. All student worksheets include vocabulary words and a fun lesson or writing activity. AWESOME LIBRARY CARDS The secret to success is the elementary library card! This new library card was designed by Dr. Gaines to help elementary students easily find books and other resources on their correct reading level. The card can be color-coded to match the reading levels of the books in your library. A few topics covered in Elementary Library Lesson Plans include: - book care - reference books - fiction & non-fiction - maps & globes - catalog searches - magazines - computer skills - poetry - story elements - book reports - Dewey Decimal System - fairy tales & folk tales - vocabulary words ...and more!




When the Leaf Blew in


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Story about the chain of events happening on a farm when a single leaf blows into the barn.




Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween?


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It's Halloween night. While a mother is upstairs getting her daughter's costume ready, lots of trick-or-treaters stop by the house -- from werewolves, ghosts, and zombies to witches, bats, dinosaurs, and more! But are they really real? Jerry Pallotta and David Biedrzycki team up again in this spine-tingling story that's as giggle-inducing as Who Will Help Santa This Year and Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?




Collaborative Library Lessons for the Primary Grades


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This book consists of tried and tested collaborative lesson plans for teacher librarians to use when planning lessons with classroom teachers to use with students in the primary grades. These lessons integrate research skills instruction with curriculum standards in science and social studies. Lessons are developed using standard reference materials such as biography, atlas, encyclopedia, and the almanac. Each lesson contains all patterns, worksheets, and plans necessary to immediately implement the lesson. This book consists of tried and tested collaborative lesson plans for teacher librarians to use when planning lessons with classroom teachers to use with students in the primary grades. These lessons integrate research skills instruction with curriculum standards in science and social studies. Lessons are developed using standard reference materials such as biography, atlas, encyclopedia, and the almanac. Each lesson contains all patterns, worksheets and plans necessary to immediately implement the lesson. Grades K-3.




Libeary Skills


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Presents library skills through a variety of activities, such as poetry, fingerplays, and art projects. Task sheets are used to teach book care rules, parts of a book, arrangement of books, dictionary skills, reference skills and more.




Developing 21st Century Literacies


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Here is a guide that shows you how to help students develop the critical thinking and learning skills necessary for effective and engaged citizens in the 21st Century. It provides tools and strategies to deliver a cutting-edge school library curriculum.




Mr. Wiggle's Book


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Mr. Wiggle describes, in rhyming text and illustrations, the ways careless readers hurt their books.




Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts


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"Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is suitable for all types of academic libraries, high school libraries, as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools". --Publisher.




Standards-Based Lesson Plans for the Busy Elementary School Librarian


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This helpful resource provides all-new tested, standard-based lessons accompanied by reproducible handouts and easy-to-follow directions. A new book by Joyce Keeling, an elementary librarian and teacher with more than two decades' experience, Standards-Based Lesson Plans for the Busy Elementary School Librarian presents many integrated lesson plans for students in each of the elementary grades, kindergarten through 5th grade. All lessons have been tested and refined in a school setting, and they are specifically written to match the AASL Information Literacy Standards, the McREL Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks, and the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the reproducible lesson plan worksheets, the book offers in-depth discussion of how best to collaborate to teach information literacy within the scope of common elementary school curricula.