Library Centers
Teaching Information Literacy, Skills, and Processes
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 1997
224 pages
978-0-313-02284-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-02284-5 (9780313022845)
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Book
08/1997
Libraries Unlimited Inc
€48.00
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Person
JUDITH SYKES, former teacher-librarian, is principal of an elementary school in Calgary, Canada.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1- ABC BEARS
- Chapter 2- ABC BOOKWORMS
- Chapter 3- BRIDGE BOOKS
- Chapter 4- JUNIOR AUTHORS
- Chapter 5- RATTLING READERS
- Chapter 6- BOOK BASICS
- Chapter 7- VICTORIAN HOLIDAY TRADITIONS
- Chapter 8- EGYPT OLD AND NEW
- Chapter 9- ANCIENT GREECE
- Chapter 10- TITANIC
- Chapter 11- SPACE
- Chapter 12- NATIVES
- Chapter 13- NATURAL RESOURCES
- Chapter 14- HISTORY 100
- Chapter 15- LINKS WITHIN BORDERS
- Chapter 16- REGIONS
- Chapter 17- EXPLORATION
- Chapter 18- LINKS ACROSS BORDERS
- Chapter 19- CENTER TIPS
