Take the pressure off your busy schedule with these standards-based library lessons! Quick and easy to implement, these proven 20-minute instructional lessons, organized by grade level, equip you with everything you need to effectively teach library and information literacy skills to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Based on AASL/AECT standards and McREL benchmarks, each lesson plan includes standards, learning objectives, teaching directions, reproducible worksheets and graphics, learning styles, teaching team, and related resources. Students will learn how to effectively employ print and electronic resources to find the information they need, and you will be thrilled with how effortlessly you can bring information and literary appreciation into every classroom and still have time for other library and teaching responsibilities!

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Elementary librarians! Enjoy a stress-free library class with these universal copy-and-go lesson plans. This lesson plan book is designed to save you time. Instead of spending hundreds of hours crafting lesson plans and student worksheets, you can easily customize the included lesson plans and worksheets in minutes. Just photocopy and you are done! There are three keys to library class success: - Awesome lesson plans - Awesome student worksheets - Awesome library cards AWESOME LESSON PLANS These kindergarten through sixth-grade lesson plans are designed to meet Common Core State Standards and AASL Standards while maintaining the flexibility to customize them with local standards. With these universal lesson plans, you merely adjust the complexity of the lesson according to the student's ability level. By using this book, you will cover all essential library topics. AWESOME STUDENT WORKSHEETS These child-friendly designs make learning about library resources exciting. You will find drawing activities, puzzles, vocabulary exercises, book reports, and more. All student worksheets include vocabulary words and a fun lesson or writing activity. AWESOME LIBRARY CARDS The secret to success is the elementary library card! This new library card was designed by Dr. Gaines to help elementary students easily find books and other resources on their correct reading level. The card can be color-coded to match the reading levels of the books in your library. A few topics covered in Elementary Library Lesson Plans include: - book care - reference books - fiction & non-fiction - maps & globes - catalog searches - magazines - computer skills - poetry - story elements - book reports - Dewey Decimal System - fairy tales & folk tales - vocabulary words ...and more!

A funny, playful salute to the power and importance of books from New York Times best-selling author Carmen Agra Deedy. When Sunrise Elementary School advertised for a thick-skinned librarian with a burning love of books, Miss Lotta Scales knew she was perfect for the job. Who could guard books better than a REAL dragon? Yet when she won't let any of the children take a book from the shelves, the teachers form a delegation. Not even sweet Miss Lemon can convince Miss Lotta Scales that "the library belongs to the children." Fortunately, when nearsighted Molly Brickmeyer stumbles onto a copy of Snuff the Magic Dragon and reads the tale out loud, her storytelling beckons the children back to the library and brings them face to face with the Library Dragon. Can an open book temper the flames of the school's hotheaded librarian? Filled with clever dragon puns, this is an entertaining story, now available in an audio edition, about the power and importance of books for both children and adults.

Presents library skills through a variety of activities, such as poetry, fingerplays, and art projects. Task sheets are used to teach book care rules, parts of a book, arrangement of books, dictionary skills, reference skills and more.

This book consists of tried and tested collaborative lesson plans for teacher librarians to use when planning lessons with classroom teachers to use with students in the primary grades. These lessons integrate research skills instruction with curriculum standards in science and social studies. Lessons are developed using standard reference materials such as biography, atlas, encyclopedia, and the almanac. Each lesson contains all patterns, worksheets, and plans necessary to immediately implement the lesson. This book consists of tried and tested collaborative lesson plans for teacher librarians to use when planning lessons with classroom teachers to use with students in the primary grades. These lessons integrate research skills instruction with curriculum standards in science and social studies. Lessons are developed using standard reference materials such as biography, atlas, encyclopedia, and the almanac. Each lesson contains all patterns, worksheets and plans necessary to immediately implement the lesson. Grades K-3.

This helpful resource provides all-new tested, standard-based lessons accompanied by reproducible handouts and easy-to-follow directions. A new book by Joyce Keeling, an elementary librarian and teacher with more than two decades' experience, Standards-Based Lesson Plans for the Busy Elementary School Librarian presents many integrated lesson plans for students in each of the elementary grades, kindergarten through 5th grade. All lessons have been tested and refined in a school setting, and they are specifically written to match the AASL Information Literacy Standards, the McREL Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks, and the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the reproducible lesson plan worksheets, the book offers in-depth discussion of how best to collaborate to teach information literacy within the scope of common elementary school curricula.