The Fact Monster looks like a great resource for ideas on teaching about atlases, almanacs, online encyclopedias, and dictionaries. Information Literacy is full of go to places for teaching and learning about information literacy. ReadWriteThink is endorsed by the International Reading Association and NCTE with lesson plans and helpful tools to increase higher level thinking in students. TRAILS is also full of lesson plans, ideas, and evaluation tools. SOS is endorsed by so many recognized library affiliated organizations and allows a search for lesson topics and grade levels. The Curriculum Corner is another source found on Pinterest that I kept tagging, so I gave it a separate easy to access spot on my PLN.
Folk tale Bingo. Elementarylibraryroutines - attentionsignals. Information Skills Lesson Plans. Resources for School Librarians - Index Menu for This Page: General Collections of Lesson Plans | The Dewey Decimal System | Reference Books and Web Sites | Worksheets | Research Methods and Reports | Miscellaneous and Holiday Lessons General Collections of Lesson Plans Library Skills Lessons - by Katy Punch on Pinterest Scholastic's Lesson Plans & Reproducibles - Lesson plans for grades K - 12. Many of these are internet based.
Check out the language arts section for research skills lessons. Lessons from the Library - Five K - 8 library lesson plans for teachers from Education World plus links to other lesson sites. The lesson called Save the Library has students defend the library from budget cuts or closure. Yearly Curriculum for the library Library Lesson Plans - By Jennifer Francis of the Powell County Schools. Introduction to Library Use How to Care for a Library Books - This article from WikiHow includes many good points that you may want to include in your talk on book care.
Resources for School Librarians. Story Arts Online! Librarians to Watch. Book Club Games and Icebreakers -- Book Club Activities. Try these fun book club games to liven up your normal routine or break the ice for newcomers! 1. Extreme MakeoverUpdate a character or two from a book set in thepast. Place the characters in today's culture—and invent a new life. Example: Lydia Bennett (Pride & Prejudice) considers Cosmo great literature and Sex & the City serious drama.
She hits the clubs, wears designer knock-offs and has Big Hair. Example: Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) takes twice-weekly elocution lessons (The Rain in Spain....). 2. 3. Divide up into teams, or go solo. 4. Obvious examples: stuffed tiger for Life of Pi; potato peels for Guernsey Literary Society, etc...; camera for Memory Keeper's Daughter; sling shot for Kite Runner; a book by Russian author Nikolai Gogol for The Namesake (even better...an old overcoat!) 5. Variation: Using the current book only, have everyone write his/her casting choice. 6. Crumple the sheets into “snowballs” and, at a signal, throw them across the room to the other team. 7. Sonshine HarborChristian Book Fairs - Home. 37 Insanely Smart School Teacher Hacks. Video: Who Was Robin Hood? | Educational Video | WatchKnowLearn Educational Videos | WatchKnowLearn. Mr And Mrs Vinegar - An English Fairy Tale. Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, a worthy couple, lived in a glass pickle-jar. The house, though small, was snug, and so light that each speck of dust on the furniture showed like a mole-hill; so while Mr.
Vinegar tilled his garden with a pickle-fork and grew vegetables for pickling, Mrs. Vinegar, who was a sharp, bustling, tidy woman, swept, brushed, and dusted, brushed and dusted and swept to keep the house clean as a new pin. Now one day she lost her temper with a cobweb and swept so hard after it that bang! Bang! She picked her way over these as best she might, and rushed into the garden. "Oh, Vinegar, Vinegar! " But Mr. "But what about the furniture? " "I will take the door of the house with me, lovey," quoth Mr. Mrs. Well, they walked all day long, but not a brass farthing did they make, and when night fell they found themselves in a dark, thick forest. "Don't alarm yourself, lovey," he said. So he climbed the tree, fixed the door, and Mrs. "Don't shake so! " Then Mrs. My goodness! "Done! " Writing Center - AccreditedColleges.com. TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills.
Home - Big6. The Book Bug: Share and Share Alike. In the past couple of days I have gotten a few, very sweet emails from other teachers and Media Specialists about the ideas and programs I have shared here on The Book Bug. Although I do come up with a great deal of my own programs and ideas for the Media Center, I must admit that a few of the programs I am using in the Media Center are not 100% my original ideas.
I have borrowed from some wonderful, more experienced Media Specialists and tweaked their ideas into my version of their original. I would like to take the time and acknowledge the creators of two of those ideas and explain my adaptation of them. An idea which I have borrowed (or maybe maintained is the correct word for it) for the Media Center is Honor Books. Mrs. Honor Books are not library books. I don't keep up with who has them. Honor books are great for students who are repeatedly loosing library books and for students who have way overdue books. The books in this section are in alphabetical order by the series title. Science Fair Project Guide. Identifying Reliable Sources and Citing Them.
The Book Fairy-Goddess. Fact Monster: Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help. Information Literacy for K-16 Settings. Information Literacy for K-16 Settings Purpose of this Site: Today's educators and K-12 students need to be information literate: to be able to locate, evaluate, use and share information. notes several specific reasons for students to be information literate: * So they can successfully navigate through proliferating information resources * To improve their quality of education * To learn additional tools to reinforce course content * To enhance lifelong learning.
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has established information literacy standards for K-12 students, which are aligned with the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) information literacy competency standards for higher education. The "Big6™" is copyright (c) (1987) Michael B. Additionally, the KOCE broadcasting station, in partnership with Dr. These standards apply to students in higher education.
A. B. A. Homepage - ReadWriteThink. TRAILS-InformationLiteracy - Lesson Plans. Skip to main content Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web or iPad! Guest Join | Help | Sign In TRAILS-InformationLiteracy Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... S.O.S. for Information Literacy. The Curriculum Corner 123 — Weaving the Common Core into your Daily Curriculum.