Overview
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
Full Product Details
Author: Judith Anne Sykes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Libraries Unlimited Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 0.566kg
ISBN: 9781563085079
ISBN 10: 1563085070
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 15 August 1997
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
?For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.?-Colorado Libraries
For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community. -Colorado Libraries Suitable for a wide range of students. -Library Lane Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers. -Library Talk ?Suitable for a wide range of students.??Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?-Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?- Library Lane ?Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers.?-Library Talk ?For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.?-Colorado Libraries
For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community. -Colorado Libraries Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers. -Library Talk Suitable for a wide range of students. -Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.??Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?-Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?- Library Lane ?For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.?-Colorado Libraries ?Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers.?-Library Talk
Author Information
JUDITH SYKES, former teacher-librarian, is principal of an elementary school in Calgary, Canada.
