30-Minute Lessons

Jae Rolt from Cessnock West PS suggests:

• Do author / illustrator focus / comparison

• Teach students how to use Oliver to find the books they want.

• Discover an atlas

• Discover a dictionary - it’s amazing how many kids have no idea how to actually find a word in a dictionary

• Discover an encyclopaedia - just in case the power goes out!

• I do a lesson where students grab a book from 590s and we work out what the Dewey numbers relate to

• Explore how spine labels work; how they tell us where to put the book etc.

• Find what the class is studying with their teacher and find all the books on that topic (first week), then look at the books, write up some key facts and then in another lesson learn how to re-shelve those books.