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Here's Part 3: book titles and authors. Activity 9 - You Can't Tell a Book From It's Title This is an activity designed to reinforce call number recognition, teach the meanings for call numbers, and provide practice in using the computer catalog. Students are asked to search a book by title and identify the type of book it is based on the call number designation. Activity 10 - The Oldest Book This is an activity skill designed to reinforce students' ability to competently use the computer catalog, to identify pieces of information on catalog cards, and to ascertain the age of a book based on its bibliographic information. Activity 11 - Dewey Riddles This is an activity designed to give student's practice in locating and interpreting Dewey numbers, in a game format. Students are asked to locate books with a specific Dewey number, and solve a riddle using the titles of those books. Activity 12 -- Top of the Page/ Title Only This is an activity designed to consolidate previously learned book location skills. Given only the title of the book, students are asked to locate it in the catalog and on the shelves. Activity 13 -Individual Reference Puzzles - Guinness This is a skills activity that allows students to practice locating information and answering trivia question using the Guinness Book of World Records CDRom. Activity 14 -Bartlett's Demo and Practice This a a demonstration of key word searching and locating information using the Bartlett's Quotations CDRom reference. Activity 15 - Go Fish One This is a hands on skills lesson designed to give students practice in using three major reference resources, the Webster's Biographical Dictionary, Bartlett's Famous Quotations, and The Guiness Book of World Records. Activity 16 -Grolier's Demo and Practice This a a demonstration of key word searching and locating information using the Bartlett's Quotations CDRom reference. Activity 17 - Go Fish 2 This is a skills activity lesson designed to give students hands on practice in using three basic reference sources to answer trivia questions. Sources used in this lesson are Webster's Biographical Dictionary, Bartlett's Familiar Quotes (book and CDRom), and an almanac. Activity 18 - Go Fish 3 This is an activity designed to provide student's practice in using three basic reference sources to answer trivia questions. Sources used in this lesson are Bartlett's Familiar Quotes on CD-ROM, the encyclopedia, and Famous First Facts. Activity 19 -Reference Bingo This is a skills activity game designed to reinforce the idea that certain reference sources are the best place to research certain types of questions. Activity 20 --Combined Reference Puzzles This is a skills activity lesson designed to give students practice in using a variety of basic reference resources to answer questions. Students must use the atlas, Guinness book, almanac, and dictionary to solve each puzzle. Activity 21 - Trivia Trackers This is an exercise designed to give students practice in locating information bits in any available reference source. Activity 22 - Caudill Vote This is an activity in which students particiapte in an election to select the winner of the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award. Activity 23 - Library Detective This is a research skills unit designed to give students practie in locating basic information in the Learning Center. Students are posed a series of nine trivia type questions, to which they must locate the answer, working in teams. Activity 24 - Battle of the Books 2 Activity 25 - Battle Off Linda Lucke Learning Center Director Butterfield School Libertyville, IL LLucke@d70.k12.il.us Happy are those who have learned to laugh at themselves, for they shall never lack for amusement! Eva, Here is a link to tons of library lessons. http://www.school-libraries.org/resources/ Kristine Wildner Librarian Holy Apostles School New Berlin, WI Dear Eva, Our local county curriculum has lessons attached to them and are available on-line. You have to go to the main page: Welcome to the Howard County Public School System and then navigate through to "In the Classroom", click on "Curriculum". From there, Click on "Media" and then "Curriculum Resources". These lessons are aligned with the Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum. There are also resources on the site to help with collection development, management, etc. I myself will be starting my first year as a media specialist this fall in a private school, but am a 15-year veteran of HCPSS and will use this as a major resource this coming year. I hope this helps. Sincerely, Anne E. Howard, MA, MS Media Specialist Trinity School Ellicott City, MD 21042 Hi Eva, Don't forget that we have LearnNC. Also, remember to check out <http://www.ncwiseowl.org>. As far as ready-made lesson plans, LearnNC is the only place right now that I can suggest. I am entering my 2nd year as a media specialist, so I still need help with this also. I purchased some books that I didn't get a chance to use since I was in charge of the media center and the computer lab as well as serve as technician fixing the break-downs and glitches in the entire school. However, I can recommend some books that may help. Stretchy Library Lessons: Grades K-5 by Pat Miller Stretchy Library Lessons: Research Skills : Grades K-5 (Stretchy Library Lessons) by Pat Miller Stretchy Library Lessons: Reading Activities : Grades K-5 (Stretchy Library Lessons) by Pat Miller Elementary School Librarian's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Tips, Techniques, and Materials to Help You Save Time and Work in Virtually Every Aspect by Barbara Farley Bannister I found these sites this morning: Note: I typed < and > marks around the links so that the links wouldn't be broken. If for some reason you cannot link to the pages, copy and paste the links removing the < and > marks in your browser. <http://www.k12.hi.us/~mkunimit/Library_lessons/> <http://mte.asd103.org/library/lesson.htm> - I really love this page! Every grade level is broken down with a lesson for each week! <http://www.prosserschools.org/krv/library/main_pages/lessons.htm> <http://www.internetnewsroom.com/library/> - No lessons available right now because the page is being updated. You can still check it out to see the format. <http://www.horacemann.pvt.k12.ny.us/lower/LibraryWeb/libhome8.html> - This page is still being developed. Click on a grade level, then click "Library Lessons". Some grades have a few lessons posted. Some like 2nd has nothing yet. Fifth has two lessons listed, but they haven't linked them yet. I have to go now. For more links, enter "library lessons" into a search engine. You might find more good ones. Would you mind sharing your lists by either e-mailing me or posting a hit so that others in the same boat can have another resource? By the way, are you going to the IMPACT workshop that's at Wake Tech Community College on August 16? Janice M. Askew Media Coordinator T. S. Cooper Elem. 237 NC Hwy. 32 South Sunbury, NC 27979 jma0525@earthlink.net Hi, I don't have to create lesson plans anymore or at least not detailed plans. I just write objective, activity, assessment in the little tiny boxes in my electronic planbook. On my webpage I have my outline of lessons that I teach my students under grade 3, grade 4 and grade 5. http://www.teacherweb.com/nj/Branchburg/OYlibrary/ I hope this helps. I had no idea what I was going when I was hired four years ago. I just made it up as I went along and the kids, teacher and principal seemed happy so I am sure that you will be find. Good luck. Thanks to all for the help for all of us newbies in the cybrarian field. Here are is a list of the info that I received from my querry. 1. Kelly Kelsoe wrote: First decide the checkout procedure you want to use with your classes. Make those mental decisions before they come in. Do they come in and sit first before getting up to get a book? Do they go straight to the shelves? Do you have them use place-markers when getting a book? I have mine come in and sit in their assigned library seat (K-3) then I dismiss them by table to get a place marker and get a library book. I am able to help them better this way. (4-5) They come straight in and get a marker and go straight to the shelves to select a book, then check it out and sit down. When everyone is finished, I do some sort of lesson. That is what I do, you can do it any way you want, just have it planned ahead and be ready to give them instruction. My second year, I figured this out and it was much smoother. (Lessons are nothing--you can pick up and book and read it and have a discussion about it with the class for a lesson to begin with) Let me know if you want to talk with me further. I'm surely no expert...but willing to talk and share war stories...ha Kelly Kelsoe kelly.kelsoe@lcsk12.org 2. I apologize - the site is libraryinstruction.com and the URL is http://www.libraryinstruction.com/learnthelibrary/LearntheLibrary50.ppt Sorry for the confusion this caused. I've been moving my home and family and am sooo disorganized! Yee gads. Claudette Curl, M.L.I.S. Elementary Library Media Coordinator 3. Hi, You might take a look at the Books and Activities area on my site: http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/7869.asp You might be interested in Welcome to the Library http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art22172.asp and Helping Young Patrons Check-Out Books http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art22173.asp Bene e Pace (Blessings and Peace), Paula Laurita Library Sciences Editor http://www.bellaonline.com/Site/librarysciences 4. First day: Kg--Read "Miss Bindergarten Goes to Kindergarten"--discuss their first days of school and their feelings about it. 1st & 2nd--Read "Chrysanthemum" by Kevin Henkes--http://www.kevinhenkes.com/mouse/02.asp Play a name game and try to remember everyone's name...or discuss her feelings...lots of things you can do with this book. That's all I have time for now. I'll share some more activities later. Kelly Kelsoe Elementary Library Media Specialist kelly.kelsoe@lcsk12.org 5. Get your hands on the books STRETCHY LIBRARY LESSONS by Pat Miller. There are several. There is a good orientation to the library activity in the one on Library Skills or the one on Research Skills (I can't remember which and don't have it at home.). I have also used the Research Skills one extensively. The lesson involves creating a simple powerpoint to areas you want the students to be aware of in the library. I think it's called, "Where in the Library?" You play it sort of like a game. My kids really enjoyed it last year! Good luck!! Melissa Norris LMS North Elementary Prince George, VA Melnorris@aol.com 6. Hi Darlene, Good luck in your transition! I'm in a middle school. Mine isn't a formal lesson, but here are two things I do during my 6th grader orientation. I make sure that we walk around the library so I show them things as I tell about them. Helps to get them moving, less boring than just listening to me. I don't know if that would be better or worse with the younger ones, but your fifth graders are only a year away from my 6th graders. Don't expect to do it all at once. Make a checklist of what you want to tell them about. Check things off as you get through them. May take several lessons to show/discuss the basic orientation. Not a problem! I always try to engage the students, so one thing I ask during orientation is that they fill in a simple worksheet with student's name, and the name of something they read over the summer they enjoyed and why they liked it. (Not such an easy thing with some middle schoolers who spend a lot of time denying that there's anything in written form that they could enjoy!) It doesn't have to be a book, but it does have to be something they enjoyed. I have gotten some very creative responses -- the map that got them to an amusement park, lyrics to a popular song, etc. Those go up on our bulletin board outside the library for the month of September. This also helps me stay abreast of new teen lit that appeals to middle schoolers. I hope this helps! Mary Melaugh Marshall Middle School Library Billerica, MA mmelaugh@comcast.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. 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