This handy guide breaks down the essentials must-haves and must-dos for your first year in the Elementary Library. Whether you are coming from the classroom or college, it provides the basics to help you get started on a first successful year.
Included is a pdf for copying for classroom purposes or a digital copy to be displayed on a projector. Students should find 3 groups of 3 as the common connection in call numbers. Great for review or to introduce call numbers as well as a discussion of fiction and nonfiction. Call numbers are based on standard Dewey classification system.
Teaching secret codes is a sneaky way to help students write better. Use the color code to have students create messages. Also included is a bracelet template.
Do your students struggle to identify facts from written passages? Using this short passage on ice cream, teachers can introduce, teach or review how to extract facts from written passages.
3rd - 5th
Close Reading, Informational Text, Reading Strategies
It can be hard to get in a routine for returning library books. This tracing/coloring sheet helps reminds students and their caregivers to return library books.
Included is a digital copy to be displayed on a projector. Students should find 3 groups of 3 as the common connection in call numbers. Great for review or to introduce call numbers as well as a discussion of fiction and nonfiction. Call numbers are based on standard Dewey classification system.
Included is a pdf for copying for classroom purposes. Students should find 3 groups of 3 as the common connection in call numbers. Great for review or to introduce call numbers as well as a discussion of fiction and nonfiction. Call numbers are based on standard Dewey classification system.
High School Social Studies Teacher (10 years)
Elementary School Media Librarian (10 years)
Teaching style
Student Choice-Students should be able to choose books based on personal preference not reading level.
Independent Reading should be promoted but not as homework.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Profiles in Professionalism District Distinction (2019)
My own education history
M.A, B.A. History University of Scranton
MLS Southern Connecticut State University
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