Book Description

The revised edition of Library Lessons for Grades 7-9 provides busy librarians and teachers with a manual of detailed lesson plans and reproducible worksheets to teach library skills to their students. The library skills section consists of nineteen lessons and forty-five worksheets covering library orientation, parts of a book, fiction and nonfiction, biography and autobiography, Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal classification, the card and computer catalogs, magazines, newspapers, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, and the vertical file. The reference book section consists of nineteen lessons and forty worksheets covering lesson on basic reference sources and a "reference book roundup" and test. This revised edition has an added lesson on the computer catalog, updates reference book changes, and includes seven new reviews.