| Grade | Circulation
and Care | Literary Forms |
| Kindergarten |
- Use appropriate library behavior
- Show
consideration of other library users
- Protect book
from damage or misuse
- Follow check-out and check-in
procedures, including due date
- Individual responsibility
for borrowed material
|
- Make believe and real stories
- Caldecott
and other picture book awards
- Poetry
|
| First |
|
- Make believe and real stories
- Caldecott
and other picture book awards
- Poetry
|
| Second |
- Continue to demonstarte knowledge of skills previously
introduced
| - Distinguish
between fiction and non-fiction
- Introduce biography
|
| Third |
- Continue to demonstarte knowledge of skills previously
introduced
| - Fables,
fairy tales, folklore, realistic fiction and information books
- Newbery
Award
|
| Fourth |
|
- Recognize folklore, poetry, realistic fiction, information
books and historical fiction
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| Fifth |
|
- All genres: historical fiction, science fiction, mystery,
realistic fiction, humor, biography, poetry, nonfiction
|
| Sixth |
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| Grade | Book
Format,
Parts of a Book | Location and Description | Electronic
catalog |
| K |
- Recognize that a book consists of front, back, cover,
spine, & pages
- Recognize importance of illustrations
- Recognize
title, author, and illustrator of a book
|
- Recognize that materials have aspecial place on the shelves
- Locate
E and non-fiction sections
|
- Introduce catalog as a way to find material
|
| First |
|
- Reinforce concepts
- Locate
call #
- Know purpose of call #
- Match
author's last name with shelf
- Realize alphabelical
order
| - Recognize
that electronic catalog is an index to the library
- Search
by subject, title, author
|
| Second |
- Continue to demonstarte knowledge of skills previously
introduced
| - Reinforce
concepts
- Know the relationship between the Dewey
Decimal Clasification system and non-fiction
|
- Recognize materials are listed also by series,call # and
keyword
- Introduce biography
|
| Third |
- Recognize table of contents, index, and glossary and their
purposes
- Recognize publisher
|
- Create call # for fiction book
- Locate
book by call # and title in FIC area
- Recognize rudiments
of Dewey Decimal Classsificaiton system
- Locate book
by call # in non-fiction area
|
- Locate informaiton when given author, title, or subject
- Differentiate
between author, title, and subject
|
| Fourth |
- Recognize when and how to use table of contents, index,
and glossary
- Recognize importance of copyright date
|
- Review the categoreis of the Dewey Decimal Classification
System
- Reinforce finding fiction and non-fiction
on the shelves using call numbers
|
- Introduced to the concept of boolean searching, "see"
and "see also"
- Identify bibliographic
information on the screen
|
| Fifth |
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| Sixth |
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| |
| Grade | Reference
books | Internet | Critical
thinking skills |
| K |
N/A | N/A |
- Summarize main ideas of story
- Evaluate
story
- Relate story to prior experience or knowledge
|
| First |
| N/A
| - Formulate research
question
- Introduce concept of keyword
- Reinforce
concepts
|
| Second |
| |
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| Third |
|
| - Reinforce concepts
- Recognize
concept of resources in the community, e.g. experts, public library, zoo, etc.
|
| Fourth |
- Reinforce concepts
- Introduce
distinction between various reference sources
|
- Reinforce concepts
- Locate
useful secitons of resource material
- Use keyword
for research quest
| - Reinforce
concepts
- Locate useful secitons of resource material
- Use
keyword for research quest
|
| Fifth |
- Introduce World Almanac
- Introduce
various refernce sources and their location
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| Sixth |
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