
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills! This book documents a continuous library center program with a series of mini-lessons that cover topics from bears, books, and dinosaurs to natural resources, rockets, and Victorian holiday traditions. Projects use different types of media (e.g., books, tapes, CD-ROMs, the Internet), giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources-to find books; use the library catalog, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and CD-ROMs; alphabetize; perform author research, build a bibliography, create a book cover and poster; role play; conduct a video interview; and so on. For each center, the author provides reproducible instruction cards, a list of materials, and suggestions for implementation. Various assessment tools are recommended-observation checklists, coaching and discussion, presentations, celebrations, and formal checklists to be
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1β ABC BEARS
- Chapter 2β ABC BOOKWORMS
- Chapter 3β BRIDGE BOOKS
- Chapter 4β JUNIOR AUTHORS
- Chapter 5β RATTLING READERS
- Chapter 6β BOOK BASICS
- Chapter 7β VICTORIAN HOLIDAY TRADITIONS
- Chapter 8β EGYPT OLD AND NEW
- Chapter 9β ANCIENT GREECE
- Chapter 10β TITANIC
- Chapter 11β SPACE
- Chapter 12β NATIVES
- Chapter 13β NATURAL RESOURCES
- Chapter 14β HISTORY 100
- Chapter 15β LINKS WITHIN BORDERS
- Chapter 16β REGIONS
- Chapter 17β EXPLORATION
- Chapter 18β LINKS ACROSS BORDERS
- Chapter 19β CENTER TIPS