Re: ELEM library lesson plans

[Mary Ziller <cdslibrary@XOOMMAIL.COM>]

Dear Rhonda and friends,

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I found a great lesson plan by typing
+"information literacy" into www.altavista.com.

It is called Moon Project Alpha. Although it is a
little old for your students, the format is a
good one, which you could perhaps adapt to a
younger student population.

One of the goals for young readers to to develop
a love of reading.  When you read the books you
(and they) love, you are fostering
reading/literature appreciation.  If you can set
aside some of the library period for a craft that
relates to the story they just heard, that makes
the whole experience very memorable for the
children.  For example, for "Turtle Day" by
Florian, the children can make a small turtle.
The teacher/librarian draws the base (head, tail,
and four feet.  The students cut out the
foundation and glue an egg holder (one section
from an egg carton) to the foundation.  The egg
holder should be inverted like the turtle's
shell, and the head, tail, and feet should be
proportionally made so that the appendages just
peek out from under the "shell".

Example 2:  For the Very Hungry Caterpillar, have
the children make a buterfly.  Give each child an
empty toilet paper roll cardboard tube.  Have the
children cover the tube with constructin paper or
copier paper,which they can decorate with
markers, stickers, or glitter, confetti, etc.
The tube is the body of the caterpillar.

Give each child a picture of a butterfly to color
in , cut out and glue or tape to the cylinder.
If you like, the children may punch a hole at one
end of the cylinder and tie a string or yarn to
it.  Then the butterfly can "fly" when the child
swings it in a circle.  If you have money for
pipe cleaners, let the class make antenae for
their butterflies.

Another skill librarians can teach or practice
with children is learning the order of events in
the story.  Find coloring book versions of the
fairy tales.  Prepare sheets that have the
important scenes from the story you are reading.
Let the children put the events in order and make
a little book.  The books are made of
construction paper and either stapled together or
sewn along the "spine" (fold in the papers). One
Scene is pasted to each page in the proper order
until alll scenes are used.

Alternately, you can prepare a blank story board
with a square for each event.  The children draw
the scenes from the story in the order of
occurance.  Children will pay attention to the
story, if they know they will be held accountable
for the content.

Another activity which you probably already use
is for the children to draw their favorite scene
or character from the book.

Some stories can be acted out.  The three bears
lends itself very well.  The children can eat
instant oatmeal (porridge) as a treat.  Bring in
a thermos of hot water to prepare it in coffee
cups.  The children can eat it directly from the
coffee cup with a spoon--easy clean up--they just
throw out the cup when done.

Another idea: Let the children make finger
puppets or stick puppets, or masks, or a pinata
of the characters.



Mary Ziller
Seasonal Librarian
Overbrook Park Library
Philadelphia, PA
cdslibrary@xoommail.com

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