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Hooked on Library Skills!: A Sequential Activities Program for Grades K-6

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This book might have worked fine 10 years ago but now it is outdated. Hooked on Library Skills pays no attention to the electronic age and meets few of the standards required for information technology. Many lessons teach children about card catalogues rather than how to access electronic resources. There were few lessons I could use in this book to teach K - 5.

If you already have a strong lesson base, this probably is not for you. However, while this book is old (1988) and parts are outdated (film strips and card catalogs), as a new media specialist I found its organization and framework to be quite helpful and I used it as a basis in planning lessons for my school year. My district has no curriculum for media centers and nothing was left so I was faced with starting from scratch. This was one of the few books that I could find that is organized in the same way as I would use it, first by grade level and then by month. Plugging in the national standards and updating the outdated stuff was easy. I also saved a tremendous amount of time by using the ideas from their activity sheets as a basis for making activities to use on the SmartBoard.