[LM_NET] HIT 2: 3rd grade skills

[Belinda <br711@RCN.COM>]

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I expect my incoming fourth graders to:

be stong users of the OPAC
to understand call number arrangement, fiction and nonfiction, and be able to 
locate any book in the library
be able to use an online encyclopedia for a simple search
know different genres
have some basic keyboarding skills
basic research skills that allow them to find potential websites that might contain 
answers
be able to create a basic document in Word

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How to read the computer catalog screen.  You can do that with a computer and power 
point, or make transparencies and project them on a screen or wall.  Alphabetical 
order to the 3rd letter, and numerical order.  Difference between author, title, 
and subject searches.  Reference books and the idea that they don't check out.  You 
might take some phots of various libraries and show how they are arranged.  You 
might be able to call up the catalogs of various schools and show them how the 
on-line catalog works. 

It's tough.  I came here last year and the kids knew very little.  There had been 
no librarian to tech skills and information strategies for 8 years.  This year is 
better and the lower grades are getting it faster than the upper grades. 

Belinda Rusnock
Librarian
Vitalistic Therapeutic Charter School and Center
Bethlehem, PA
br711@rcn.com 

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