Librarians meet with each class on a weekly basis, from kindergarten through 5th grade, working closely with teachers to weave library skills into all curriculum areas. Seasonal and classic literature is frequently used to supplement the curricular program. In addition, flannel board stories, creative dramatics, and puppetry enliven our program. Students in the upper grades meet in the library as a part of their regularly scheduled classes, and in this context, they're taught to use specific books and reference. The foundation of the upper class library skills program is the research process, embodied by the process of task definition, information-seeking strategies, source location and access, use of information, synthesis, and evaluation.
Kindergarten
- Care of books
- Importance of on-time book return
- Keeping track of books
- Library citizenship rules
- Simple library terminology
- Introduction to the library catalog
- Literature through puppets, flannel boards, dramatics, story time
First Grade
- Terminology of authors & illustrators
- Alphabetical order on bookshelves
- Book parts
- Fiction & nonfiction
- Using the library catalog
- Literature through puppets, flannel boards, dramatics, story time
Second Grade
- Locating picture books, fiction books, easy readers
- Using call numbers to find books
- Understanding alphabetical order
- Dictionaries; guide words to pronunciation
- Library Terminology: beginning research skills and library catalog
- Literature through puppets, flannel boards, dramatics, story time
Third Grade
- Review: Library citizenship, Super-3 task definition
- Using online catalog
- Intro to Boolean searching
- Encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs
- Using tables of contents, indices
- Introduction to copyrights
- Caldecott award books
- Literature enrichment through listening
Fourth Grade
- California Missions,
- Gold Rush research
- Introduction to advanced research skills
- Evaluating sources of information
- Note taking, paraphrasing, copyrights
- Book parts: bibliographies, notes
- Atlases
- Mor e dictionaries & encyclopedias
- Newberry awards
- Literature enrichment through listening
- Using the online catalog
Fifth Grade
- Social studies research
- Review: library citizenship, research skills
- Public libraries
- Current topic research
- Historical research: primary sources
- Information-based project
Sixth Grade
- Bridge research
- Information retrieval, multimedia
- Evaluating the authenticity and relevancy of information
- Distinguishing opinions, arguments and facts
- Plagiarism & copyright issues
- Reference tools
