Learning Thru Living

Display "I can..." statements that go along with the new 2017 AASL Framework Standards.

After reading, Never Let a Ghost Borrow Your Library Book by Karen Casale, students can recall ways to take care of a library book by writing/ drawing one detail from the story.

To increase opportunities for students to read and move during indoor recess days, students could participate in a Walking Book Club. In the folder, there is an application for students to complete to share their interests, an agreement for the student and his/ her family to sign, a pass to allow the student to participate, a checklist to keep track of materials, and a schedule of the days each student participates.

Introduce how paraphrasing researched information while giving credit to a source is one way to avoid plagiarism. The Google Slides introduce the terms, "plagiarism" and "paraphrasing" to researchers along with steps to follow to practice as a large group. One Google Doc allows researchers to practice independently and the other Google Doc provides a rubric to score the researcher's abilities to demonstrate his/ her/ their skills.

After reading the story, Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes by Jackie Mims Hopkin, readers can practice identifying genres based on reading descriptions.

An activity to allow researchers to demonstrate their understanding of how to paraphrase researched information in order to avoid plagiarism, complete with scoring rubric.

Share with readers some of the Literary Awards that the ALA presents each year. Some examples include in the Google Slide presentation are the Newbery, the Caldecott, the Theodore Geisel, the Coretta Scott King and others.

This is an editable PowerPoint file used to incorporate math themes questions that pertain to visiting the library. The questions and answers are based on my teaching experiences, but feel free to edit each question to match your needs. Each answer key is a text box that appears at a click of the mouse to reveal the answer to the students. There are ten weeks of questions for the start of the school year, more to hopefully come!

A Google Slide presentation to introduce the terms, "plagiarism" and "paraphrasing" to researchers. The Slides also provide steps to follow and a practice activity.

To practice accessing and researching using Flipster, an online database of magazines, students can search for an article, cite the article, and answer questions after reading the article. Document could be edited to apply to an article in a different magazine that a teacher/ school subscribes to at their school.

Activity for researchers to complete to practice following the necessary steps to paraphrase researched information properly and ethically.

To practice searching for books using Destiny, readers can complete this activity finding all the key information necessary to see if a book is available to borrow.

To help readers find books in a library, this activity will allow them to practice finding picture book call numbers in alphabetical order.

I created this poster to hang in my library to remind students how "Just One Book" can be enjoyed in so many ways!

Each year I give each faculty member a little "treat" to remind them that the Library is a wonderful place to find resources that could help them. These are the gift tags I attach to lollipops.

This is an activity to help students practice searching their online Library catalogs and identify call numbers. Students can discover what type of item each one is by making connections between the item's call number and its classification; fiction, nonfiction, easy fiction or biography.

To further understand the process an author goes through when writing a story, students can cut and paste the sentence strips in the correct order.