Library/Media Center Curriculum

Prepared by CAIS Library Network Curriculum Committee

Spring, 1997

KINDERGARTEN

Orientation: Exhibit proper behavior by following rules; Locate media center; Identify media center staff; Exhibit proper care of materials; Follow check-out procedures for materials; Identify a bar code; Use shelf marker to allow proper return of materials to shelf; Take responsibility for proper behavior and care of materials.

Organization: Locate easy materials; Demonstrate awareness of easy book arrangement.

Selection and Utilization: Identify materials and equipment in many formats; Select materials appropriate to ability level; Use listening station with tape recorder; Use mouse on computer to listen to stories; Demonstrate awareness of a variety of literature (fairy tales, poetry); Identify parts of book: front cover, back cover, spine, author, title, illustrator.

Presentation: Make a presentation using audiotape, puppets, pictures,etc.

Appreciation: Participate in storytelling activities; Share literature with others; Demonstrate awareness of Caldecott Award and California Young Readers’ Medal (CYRM); Develop love of reading.

Comprehension and Application: Develop picture sequencing.

GRADE 1

Orientation: Locate easy and nonfiction collections; Follow check-out and return procedures for materials; Use bookmark properly.

Organization: Identify left to right, top to bottom shelf arrangement; Identify alphabetical order of easy books; Search the online card catalog by simple key words.

Selection and Utilization: Select materials appropriate to ability level; Identify parts of a book: spine, title, page, bar code, title page, dedication; Use different types of media including online card catalog, computer, CDRom materials.

Presentation: Make a presentation using dramatization, puppets, pictures, etc.

Appreciation: Participate in storytelling activities; Browse collection for personal use; Examine Caldecott Award, CYRM, Student Media Festival materials; Introduce Newbery Award; Distinguish between fact and fiction.

Comprehension and Application: Use information in a picture dictionary; Develop sentence sequencing; Use the title as a guide to the book’s content; Identify the main idea of a story.

GRADE 2

Orientation: Locate easy, fiction, and nonfiction collections.

Organization: Locate and observe online card catalog being used to locate materials; Search the online card catalog by author, title, key word; Observe online searches.

Selection and Utilization: Select and use materials appropriate to curricular and recreational needs; Use CDRom reference materials; Identify print and nonprint material; Introduce literary genres: biography, folktale, mystery, nonfiction.

Presentation: Make a presentation using transparencies and other nonprint formats; Use slide show in Kid Pix or equivalent presentation software.

Appreciation: Compare and analyze Caldecott Award books.

Comprehension and Application: Use nonfiction materials to locate information; Develop story sequencing; Use a simple dictionary; Use a simple encyclopedia; Locate information on an electronic reference computer.

GRADE 3

Orientation: Locate story collection, biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, periodicals, audiovisual materials, and vertical file.

Organization: Identify shelf arrangement of fiction and nonfiction books; Search on CDRom Read and access information from a single site; Use other library catalogs.

Selection and Utilization: Select and use periodicals and newspapers; Identify parts of a book: table of contents, index, glossary, appendix; Use filmstrip and slide projector, camera.

Presentation: Make a presentation using slides, photographs, books, etc.; Use slide show on Clarisworks or equivalent presentation software.

Appreciation: Select and use a variety of materials for informational and recreational needs; Examine Sydney Taylor and Coretta Scott King Award winners.

Comprehension and Application: Use online(computerized) card catalog to locate, materials by subject, author, title, and call number; Use encyclopedias, telephone directories, and dictionary; Use guide words in reference works; Use primary magazine search programs, e.g. SIRS.; Develop sequencing through student produced materials.

GRADE 4

Orientation: Identify and use other public and private library media center services.

Organization: Identify 10 classes of Dewey Decimal System; Understand materials are separated by subject in library classification schemes; Understand cutter numbers to three places; Search online card catalog by Boolean terms; Use search engines for online searches.

Selection and Utilization: Identify all parts of a book; Identify publisher, place of publication, copyright date; Demonstrate awareness of a variety of literature: tall tales., folk tales, legends, pourquoi stories, myths.

Presentation: Make a presentation using posters, oral and written reports.

Appreciation: Distinguish between fact and opinion; Examine Newbery Award books.

Comprehension and Application: Distinguish between the contents of an encyclopedia and a dictionary; Use and distinguish between contents of almanac, thesaurus, special dictionaries, unabridged dictionary, specialized encyclopedia, and vertical file, and all available electronic references; Select correct volumes of encyclopedia by using the index; Identify information on title and copyright pages; Use nonprint materials for information; Use materials without violating copyright laws; Use keywords in electronic searches; Use a variety of resources and know which is appropriate; Use other catalogs; Use proper format for notetaking; Organize materials into an outline.

GRADE 5

Orientation: Locate reference tools.

Organization: Create a subject bibliography using several electronic reference sources; Use URLs to locate online resources.

Selection and Utilization: Identify parts of a book: foreword, preface, introduction; Define producer, composer, editor; Demonstrate awareness of a variety of literature: myths, fables, autobiography, types of fiction, fantasy, mystery, folktales, historical fiction, epics, legends, science fiction, multicultural titles.

Presentation: Make a presentation using a variety of print and nonprint media formats including write-on filmstrips.

Appreciation: Examine Batchelder and Hans Christian Andersen Award winners; Participate in a selection of media.

Comprehension and Application: Demonstrate an awareness of the subclassifications of the Dewey Decimal System; Use periodical search materials Library/Media Center Curriculum.

GRADE 6

Orientation: Locate collections of materials; Check out and care for all materials.

Organization: Identify and use 10 classes of the Dewey Decimal System; Conduct online searches via modem, internet, etc.; Awareness of Library of Congress (LC) as a separate system of classification numbers; Use bookmarks to identify and return to online sites.

Selection and Utilization: Identify and use all parts of a book; Define all bibliographical terms; Use 16mm projector; Use video equipment, laserdisc player; Use electronic magazine index.

Presentation: Make a presentation using posters and collages; Make a multimedia presentation on computer using Powerpoint/Excel or equivalent software.

Appreciation: Awareness of Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

Comprehension and Application: Use thesuarus, almanacs, unabridged dictionary, specialized encyclopedias, vertical file, newspapers, software, atlases, special dictionaries, and telephone directories; Use diagrams and tables as a source of information; Skim to give overview of materials; Take notes by paraphrasing and summarizing; Evaluate sources both electronic and print; Use information in a coherent, comprehensive presentation.