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6th grade library curriculum
Author of the week | Genre
of the month | Lesson of the
day | ALA | SLE | GLE | |
| September | ||||||
| Week 1 |
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Rs: Respect, Responsible, Resourceful Reading Wheel PDF | 1,3,4 | 2,3,4 | ||
| Week 2 | Paul Fleischman | Historical Fiction | Chemical element report
- | 1,3,4 | 2,3,4 | |
| Talk
like a Pirate Day - Sept. 19 FindingFiction and NonFiction with Call Numbers - with Pirates | ||||||
| Week 3 | Susan Cooper |
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Punctuation Day - Sept. 24 -- for bibliographies | 1,2,3 | 2,3,4 | |
| Week 4 | Mildred Taylor | How
to find a good book | ||||
| October | Poetry (in class) | How to search the OPAC / worksheet PDF | ||||
| Week 5 | Bloor | Banned Book Week - ALA video then PPT with bookmark list Copyright - videos:
What's copyright / Fair(y)
Use Tale then Quiz | ||||
| Week 6 | Karen Cushman | Plagiarism
and Paraphrasing
ReadWriteThink (identifying
and practice
PDFs) | ||||
| Week 7 | Gerald Morris | Scavenger hunt A / hunt B | ||||
| Week 8 | Laurie
Anderson Katherine Paterson | Dictionary
Day | Miss Alaineus disaster
- dictionary - or | |||
| Internet birthday, Oct. 29, 1969 | ||||||
| November | Biography |
Peacemaker project | ||||
| Week 9 | Shusterman | Africa report | Africa Reference books - Encyclopedias PDF (gen.&spec.) | |||
| Week 10 | Mckinley | Africa Online
sources - homepage hunt Africa Africa Historical Maps | ||||
| Week 11 | Henkes | Africa
- current issues PDF - magazines, newspapers, online | ||||
| Week 12 | CS Lewis | All about me: online internet
hunt On the day you were born and worksheet All about me: reference and book hunt | ||||
| December | Thanksgiving-Had PDF | |||||
| Week 13 | Pierce | Computer Science Education Week Dec. 5-11 | What
is the internet - history, plus web, mail, chat, etc. History
of the Internet and Quiz | |||
| Week 14 | Dickinson | WWW birthday 12/25 | Internet terminology - cards & worksheet | |||
| WWW vs Internet | What
is internet (mail, etc.) Pitchford | |||||
| Week 15 | Avi / Cross | |||||
| Week 16 | Munro Ryan | game - Ups Downs pre Newbery best book recommendation | ||||
| January | Fantasy and Fables | Scholastic Book Fair | ||||
| Tolkien | New
Year traditions- Google quotations Brainpop New Year Traditions | |||||
| VanDraanen / Ho | Mock Newbery ppt | Newbery minihunt (PDF)- POWER searching and Newbery winners ppt | ||||
| London | Newbery Nonsense OR Newbery first lines PDF w/Google Advanced | |||||
| Cormier | author video / bookfair | |||||
| Lester Julius Lester-Scholastic | Broadening
and Narrower Broader terms | |||||
| Alexander | Internet
terminology - hangman Internet terminology - matching/concentration | |||||
| February | Mystery | Valentine's day scavenger hunt :Internet Book Ency. Dictionary Atlas | ||||
| Invisible Web miniquiz - subject directories | ||||||
| Verne | ||||||
| Crossley Holland | Web
evaluation - why wary - Hoaxes | |||||
| Woodson | Presidents reference hunt review/test (PDF example) | |||||
| Sleator | What
are URLs, why important -- URLs PDF | |||||
| Lawrence, Ian | Internet terminology + URLs - Quia review | |||||
| Voigt | Internet searching - Brainpop - Iditarod women worksheet | |||||
| March | Adventure | Internet search quiz - search engine math | ||||
| Linda Sue Park | Google v. Yahoo - variety of search engines | |||||
| TA Barron | Google Advanced | |||||
| Search Engine Tutorial - directories, keyword, meta | ||||||
| Sewell | Proverbs | Quotations book | ||||
| vote YRC - due April 1 | ||||||
| April | Science
Fiction / Non Fiction | Internet Terminology - Quia match - Quia hangman - Bingo | ||||
| McCaffrey | fact
& opinion: True Story of 3 Little Pigs Harry Potter story with fact and opinion Fact and Opinion with Bees - Teacher Domain Fact and Opinion with Manatees | |||||
| NationalBookmobile
Day -and around world hunt PDF countries based on My Librarian is a Camel | ||||||
| Haddix | Titanic
sinking scavenger hunt PDF April 13,14 Advanced Google- Poetry scavenger hunt | |||||
| J. Christopher | Poetry Homepage hunt | |||||
| Animal poems using Animal Info sheet and Cinquain poem | ||||||
| Mary Hoffman | Poetry Hunt - all reference/internet | |||||
| Duncan | National
Library Week - Boy raised librarians -scavenger hunt | |||||
| May | Historical
Fiction / Fine arts | |||||
| Cadnum | magazines | |||||
| Zindel | NW connections Almanac (PDF) | |||||
| Doyle | historical maps - Zheng He -- create own based on voyages | |||||
| Naidoo | Alphabet Scavenger hunt = test | |||||
| Cooper | ||||||
| TH White | ||||||
| Mazer | ||||||
| June | Landmarks of countries - scavenger hunt (PDF) | |||||
| All about me - history around me - reference, web, magazine | ||||||
| What's in a name interactive - ReadWriteThink | ||||||
homepage hunt - Library history
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