This is working well - thought I'd share.
The cards referred to below were made by cutting apart an old Caldecott poster
from my Permabound distributor. I pasted the individual book images onto old
card-catalog cards and laminated them to be used for a variety of activities.
Sometimes, I have students use vis-a-vis markers to write their guesses, or if
they've already learned how to use the catalog - the call number for these books.
Second Grade lesson
Objectives - Students will be introduced to more Caldecott Medal winners.
Students will be introduced to the use of the computer catalog to find "address)
information about books.
Procedures - After 15-20 minutes or when most students are finished checking
out, have students move to rug. Hand out Caldecott cards. After a minute or two
of reading their own card and peeking at neighbors, ask students to describe what
is on these cards. (A: They each show one of the Caldecott gold medal-winning
books from about the past 70 years.) Point out that the illustrator, the year of
the award, and the author (adaptor/reteller) names are given. Review from last
week that the address of the book or the book's call number comes in part from the
author's last name. Have students make a silent guess about their book's call
number. Then have students gather around catalog station and use some of the
titles as examples for books we might like to find on the shelves. Model how we
type in the title (skipping initial articles, sometimes abbreviating to one or two
words i.e. "be lazy", not capitalizing) and seeing if we have the book. Explain
what 0/1 or 1/1 means for availability and how to use the information given by the
catalog. For some, read the summaries. Tell students that in upcoming weeks,
they will be learning more about how to find books in our library by using the
catalog.
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Marcia Dressel, K-5 Librarian
Osceola Elementary and Intermediate Schools
Osceola, WI
dressel@osceola.k12.wi.us <mailto:dressel@osceola.k12.wi.us>
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