Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills! This book documents a continuous library center program with a series of mini-lessons that cover topics from bears, books, and dinosaurs to natural resources, rockets, and Victorian holiday traditions. Projects use different types of media (e.g., books, tapes, CD-ROMs, the Internet), giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources-to find books; use the library catalog, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and CD-ROMs; alphabetize; perform author research, build a bibliography, create a book cover and poster; role play; conduct a video interview; and so on. For each center, the author provides reproducible instruction cards, a list of materials, and suggestions for implementation. Various assessment tools are recommended-observation checklists, coaching and discussion, presentations, celebrations, and formal checklists to be
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“Suitable for a wide range of students.”–Library Lane
“Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers.”–Library Talk
“For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.”–Colorado Libraries
“Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers.”–
“For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.”–
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JUDITH SYKES, former teacher-librarian, is principal of an elementary school in Calgary, Canada.
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The focus of beginning library centers is the alphabet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Materials Needed, Method Students, Libraries Unlimited, National Geographic, Bridge Books, Checklist Student Name, Charles Dickens, Something About the Author, Frank Asch, Franklin Expedition, Christmas Carol, Golden Picture Dictionary, Method Teachers, Robert Ballard New!
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The focus of beginning library centers is the alphabet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Materials Needed, Method Students, Libraries Unlimited, National Geographic, Bridge Books, Checklist Student Name, Charles Dickens, Something About the Author, Frank Asch, Franklin Expedition, Christmas Carol, Golden Picture Dictionary, Method Teachers, Robert Ballard New!
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- Ancient Greece (Multimedia Kits) by Teacher Created Materials on 4 pages
- A Christmas Carol (Bantam Classic) by Charles Dickens on page 77, and page 87
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses: A Fairy Story by Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn on page 70
- Frog and Toad Are Friends (I Can Read Book 2) by Arnold Lobel on page 25
- The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder on page 88
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- Action Research: A Practical Guide for Transforming Your School Library by Judith A. Sykes in Back Matter
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