Essential Understanding 1: Students will perform tasks that reinforce the location skills needed in a library.

Essential Understanding 2: Students will independently select and use many different sources to meet their reading and information needs.

Essential Understanding 3:  Students will use print, non-print, and reference materials.

Essential Understanding 4:  Students will appreciate and respond to a wide variety of children’s literature.

Essential Understanding 5: Students will expand their use of the internet and computers.

Essential Understanding 6:  Students will understand the arrangement of the library media center according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System.