Literature appreciation:

• Define Author/illustrator

• Stories of family and communities

• Nursery Rhymes

• Develop personal taste in book choice from pre-selected books

Information Literacy Skills:

• Identify fiction and nonfiction

Life-long learning:

• Develop listening skills 

• Demonstrate basic book care & personal responsibility for library behavior

Literature appreciation:

• Define Author/illustrator

• Author studies

• Develop personal taste in book choice

Information Literacy Skills:

• Participate in book hunts to familiarize location of certain authors and genres – especially in the picture book and fairytales sections

• Understand that libraries have specific organization of information

Life-long learning:

• Develop listening skills and independence in exploring books of their choice

• Demonstrate basic book care & personal responsibility for library behavior

Literature appreciation:

• Discover how illustrators contribute to the telling of a story

• Recognize and choose picture books and easy reading

• Recognize how culture and geography effect fairy tale elements

Information Literacy Skills:

• Identify and alphabetizing of Call numbers

• Compare/contrast story elements esp with fairytales of different cultural heritages

• Independently locate Non Fiction, Easy Readers, Picture, Fairytale sections in library

• Know non-fiction is organized by topic

Life long learning:

• Develop an awareness of what books can teach us: 

• Use the library to discover and pursue personal interests.

Literature appreciation:

• Recognize a variety of genres from different ethnic and cultural heritages

• Choose just right books

Information Literacy Skills:

• Visual literacy – read illustrations and photographs for information

• Take notes from videos using listening, viewing and inferring skills

• Locate books using OPAC & Call numbers

• Locate and use information related to classroom studies

Life long learning:

• Check out books independently

• How can we use windows and mirrors/ compare/ contrast lens to help us synthesis, connect to and use information

Literature appreciation:

• Analyze  & evaluate success of illustration techniques

• Predict information in read-alouds

• Formulate appreciation for how stories connect us

• Tall tales and their techniques of exaggeration

• Appreciate the range of Native American folklore – how animals are portrayed in different tribal lore

• Use knowledge of storytelling techniques to add their voice to oral history

Information Literacy Skills:

• Locate information by dewy decimal call number

• Locate book to answer specific information question

• Locate information w/in a book  - using non-fiction text features

• Evaluate resource for its ability to answer specific information problem

• Determine if information found meets information need

Life long learning:

• How can library help us understand that knowledge and culture is transmitted in multiple formats?

• How can library help us solve information problems

Literature appreciation:

• Expand opportunities for reading Newberry, Coretta Scott King and other award winning titles

• Define major genres and recognize distinguished authors in children’s’ fiction.

Information Literacy Skills:

• Formulate subsidiary research questions for an essential research question

• Develop keywords and synonyms to aid searching for specific information

• Find information in provided on-line sources

• Use keyword skills in note taking, & skimming print and online searching of information

• Synthesis of information and document in note-taking strategies

• Presentation of research

• Determine multiple ways to gather and share information and what format is best suited to the purpose of the presentation

Life long learning:

• How can visual literacy help us academically and socially

• How does individuals and groups make change

• Who’s stories are included or not in history

Literature appreciation:

• Share love of literature and authors by formal and informal book reviews and recommendations

• Choose a variety of genre books for pleasure

• Develop empathy through windows and mirrors

• Find evidence in text and collaboratively create 3d visual representation of setting

• Participate in book club like discussions of books with the same theme

Information Literacy Skills:?

• Inquiry based research –How can I survive in nature? How can nature help me survive

• Cite sources

• Evaluate a variety of resources –esp. web based sites for credibility, relevancy, authorship, bias, design and ease of location of information, and purpose

• Assess questions to determine which can be answered by fact finding and which require deeper inquiry based synthesis

• Distinguish between and use appropriately main idea facts and their supporting details

• Use an organizational system such as graphic organizers or traditional outline to arrange information logically

Life long learning:

• Identify genre preferences

• Recommend titles to others

• Develop curiosity for information problems and solutions

• Evaluate own ability to select resources for both personal and research purposes

• Maintain openness to different opinions whether in print or in group discussions

• Demonstrate leadership and confidence by presenting ones own and other experts ideas both formally and informally

• Read, view and listen to information presented in multiple formats

Literature appreciation:

• Think critically about the text /image and examine for non-fiction or literary devices

Information Literacy Skills:

• Participate in the social exchange of knowledge – creating as well as consuming ideas

• Integrated inquiry project why should we protect a particular endangered animal and its biome

• Practices safe and ethical behavior in personal electronic communication

• Cycle and recycle fluently between all steps of the research process as the need arises

• Cite sources including images

• Find copyright free media

• Draw conclusions based on research

• Synthesize primary documents such as artifacts, diaries, letters, images, museum replicas

Life long learning:

• Identify own areas of interest for inquiry project based learning

• Looking at primary sources as vaults of information

• Evaluate own ability to select resources for both personal and research purposes

• Maintain openness to different opinions whether in print or in group discussions

• Demonstrate leadership and confidence by presenting ones own and other experts ideas both formally and informally

• Read, view and listen to information presented in multiple formats