Curriculum

Standards:

The media center follows the American Association of School Librarians standards. The media specialist also collaborates with teachers to integrate the South Carolina College and Career Ready Standards into all lessons taught in the media center.

Units of Instruction:

Greenville County Suggested Pacing Guide

Kindergarten

  • Library rules and routines
  • Check out procedures
  • Library organization
  • ABC order
  • Book Care
  • Book selection
  • book parts and features (cover, pages, author, illustrator)
  • illustrations
  • classifying fiction and informational text
  • main idea/summarizing/retelling
  • book award programs (SC Picture Book, Caldecott),
  • text features
  • listening for information
  • Identify characters, setting and major events
  • Cause/effect
  • Compare and contrast informational text
  • Compare and contrast fictional text
  • predicting
  • choral reading/readers theater
  • narrator tells the story
  • Genres (storybook, poetry, information text)
  • Confirm understanding of oral information
  • Ask and answer questions
  • Genre study: nursery rhymes, ABC/Number books, shape books, color books

Technology:

  • Computer introduction: mouse, keyboard, CPU (brain), icons,
  • Log on and off
  • Understanding that web content is not private
  • ebooks

1st

  • Library rules and routines
  • Check out procedures
  • Library organization
  • ABC order
  • Book Care
  • Book selection independently
  • book parts and features (cover, pages, author, illustrator) : review
  • illustrations for key ideas
  • classifying fiction and informational text
  • main idea/summarizing/retelling
  • book award programs (SC Picture Book, Caldecott),
  • text features of informational text (heading, table of contents, glossary, icons, electronic menus
  • identify character feelings and sensory words
  • listening for information
  • Describe characters, setting and major events
  • Describe connections between individuals, events, or ideas (cause/effect, prediction, sequencing)
  • Compare and contrast informational text
  • Compare and contrast adventures and experiences of characters in stories
  • Introduce literature from diverse cultures, time frames and genre
  • identify the narrator
  • Confirm understanding of oral information
  • Ask and answer questions
  • note taking/graphic organizers
  • using information to create a product
  • Begin to evaluate author’s validity
  • Possible Author Study:
  • Genre Study: cumulative stories (add on stories), realistic fiction, fantasy

Technology:

  • Identify, use and model proper care of age appropriate computer equipment.
  • Use teacher selected classroom/network resources to locate information
  • internet basics; search engines,
  • Open, navigate and close age appropriate curriculum based software programs.
  • basic keyboarding introduction
  • Understanding the use of passwords to protect privacy.
  • ebooks
  • Word

2nd

  • Library rules and routines
  • Check out procedures
  • Library organization
  • ABC order to the 2 and 3 letter
  • Book Care
  • Begin to locate books independently using OPAC
  • book parts and features (contents, glossary, index, title page, copyright, publisher)
  • genre identification (fables, folktales from diverse cultures and stories, poems, drama and myths)
  • reference material use (dictionary, encyclopedia, DISCUS)
  • note taking key facts
  • Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
  • Story structure: beginning, middle, end
  • Point of view
  • book award programs (SC Picture Book, Caldecott),
  • text features (subheadings, captions and bold print, diagrams)
  • Identify the author’s purpose (pursued, entertain and inform)
  • create a product using informational text
  • presenting a product for feedback
  • Poetry: rhythm, rhyme, repetition, alliteration
  • Genre studies: biographies, poetry, picture books based on real events (historical fiction), fairy tale characteristics and variants.

Technology:

  • internet search skills with in DISCUS
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Photostory
  • basic keyboarding introduction
  • eBooks

3rd

  • Library organization
  • Classifying fiction and non-fiction
  • Independently locating materials
  • Introduce Dewey Decimal categories
  • Genre identification
  • Literary elements
  • Reference material use (dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, encyclopedia, maps and globes)
  • Book award programs (SC Picture Book, Caldecott)
  • Text features, (keywords, sidebars, illustration/captions)
  • Compare/contrasts key details in two different texts on the same topic (main idea, recount key details/supporting details)
  • Sequence events using language relating to time/sequence/cause and effect.
  • Note taking/organizing information (sort information according to provided categories)
  • Recount stories from diverse cultures (fables, folktales and myths)
  • Character analysis (traits/motives/feelings)
  • Distinguish point of view (characters/narrator/reader)
  • Explain how illustrations relate to story (mood/character/setting)
  • Compare theme, setting and plot in various stories written by the same author
  • Refer to parts of stories, drama, poems using terms like “chapter”, “scene” and “stanza”

Technology

  • Respect copyright and intellectual rights of others
  • Introduce internet safety standards
  • Introduce district student email system and home directories
  • Introduce DISCUS database
  • Introduce Destiny student accounts

4th

  • Library organization
  • Classifying fiction and non-fiction
  • Independently locating materials
  • Review Dewey Decimal categories
  • Genre identification
  • Reference material use (dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, maps and globes)
  • Book award programs (SC Children's Book)
  • Make connections between a text and the same in visual or oral format
  • Determine the theme from details in a text
  • Describe in depth, the character, setting and events in a story (drawing on specific details)
  • Explain major differences between poems, drama and prose, and refer to structural elements
  • Interpret information from charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, etc.
  • Compare and contrast similar themes and patterns of events in literature from different cultures
  • Conduct research projects and publish them in writing or another format

Technology:

  • Respect copyright and intellectual rights of others
  • Review internet safety standards
  • Review district student email system and home directories
  • Review DISCUS database
  • Review Destiny student accounts
  • Effective search strategies
  • Blogging
  • Website evaluation

5th

  • Library organization
  • Classifying fiction and non-fiction
  • Independently search and locate library materials
  • Review Dewey Decimal categories
  • Recognize components of a bibliographic record
  • Analyze fiction genres by characteristics
  • Compare/contrast fiction genres
  • Compare and contrast stories in the same genre
  • Compare/contrast characters, settings and events in a story
  • Reference material use (dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, maps and globes)
  • Book Award Programs (SC Children's Book Awards)
  • Quote accurately from a text
  • Integrate and analyze information from multiple sources
  • Identify sources as primary or secondary

Technology

  • Respect copyright and intellectual rights of others
  • Review internet safety standards
  • Review district student email system and home directories
  • Review DISCUS database
  • Review Destiny student accounts
  • Effective search strategies
  • Blogging
  • Website evaluation