Provides an overall context for the examination of literacy and learning in an information age; presents background on learning; shares principles that underlie good collaborative planning and teaching; and brings the learning focus to the library media program and the community.
Presents fifty activity lessons pertaining to libraries, books, and reading, arranged by grade level ranges, with games, skills objectives, and low-cost materials lists.
Contains lesson plans that use picture books as tools to teach the AASL/AECT Information Literacy Standards in kindergarten through third grade, with reproducible patterns and activities, as well as a reading resource bibliography for each month of the school year.
Presents a comprehensive manual with accompanying CD on teaching library media skills to elementary students, covering book care, the parts of a book, the Dewey decimal system, and computer research.
Contains over sixty-five activities and worksheets designed to teach children in grades K through 6 about book care, library behavior, and reading appreciation.
Provides standards and guidelines for library media specialists and others in individual states, districts, and sites for training information-literate students.
teaching information literacy, skills, and processes, K-6
Sykes, Judith A.
1997
Describes eighteen library center programs for students in grades kindergarten through six, designed to help them develop the skills they need to use the library's many information resources independently, while also learning about a curriculum topic.
Explains the nine information literacy standards for student learning identified by the American Association of School Librarians, and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology; and provides guidelines library professionals can use to teach students these skills.
