About the store
Hi! I’m Sonya and the creator behind The Library Patch. As a retired elementary school librarian with 12 years of classroom experience and 19 years in the school library, I know firsthand that being the only librarian in your building, or even your entire district, can be hard. There’s often no one down the hall to bounce ideas off of, no team planning library lessons with you, and very little extra time to create everything from scratch. That’s where I hope to help.
After decades in schools, I design resources that are engaging, flexible, and realistic for real library schedules. Everything in my store is created with busy librarians and elementary teachers in mind—easy to use, thoughtfully planned, and ready to implement without extra prep. Thanks so much for stopping by The Library Patch. I’m truly glad you’re here—and I’m here to help.
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Reading Interest Inventory / Reading Survey for Elementary
Do you have your students complete a Reading Interest Inventory at the beginning of the year? Your elementary students will love this reading survey, now available in both print and digital versions. Matching the right book with the right kid is vital for positive reading experiences! This is a perfect activity for the first few weeks of school. Differentiated with BOTH primary and intermediate reading surveys, this comprehensive project will help you to better understand ...(1) your students' a
2nd - 7th
English Language Arts, Library Skills, Reading
Christmas Around the World Mini Book Activity
Do you want to teach your students about Christmas Around the World but don't have tons of time? This mini book is perfect for you! Students will learn two Christmas traditions from nine different countries around the world: Australia, China, France, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Each mini page has a spot for two pictures, and the clip art pictures are included too! Simply copy, cut each page in half, staple the pages along the left-hand side, and you have yourse
1st - 3rd
Informational Text
Picture Book Activities for Winter | Over and Under the Snow | Book Bites
Bring winter learning to life with this engaging picture book read-aloud built around Over and Under the Snow. A little girl is out cross country skiing with her father, when she spies a red squirrel disappear into a crack in the snow. “Where did he go?” she asks her Dad. The reader soon gets a peek into the secret world of animals that live through the winter. Squirrels, shrews, mice, voles, beavers, bears, and so many more animals survive, just under the snow! In this Book Bite resource, stud
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RI.K.1
, RI.1.1
, RI.2.1
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
The Library Dragon / Book Bite / Library Rules
A Back-to-the-Books favorite, Library Dragon, by Carmen Agra Deedy tells the story of a new librarian, Miss Lotta Scales. She takes her job of protecting the library books REALLY seriously. Maybe a little bit too seriously, as soon teachers and children alike have stopped visiting the library. Everyone is a bit scared of Miss Scales. This book is perfect for reviewing/sharing book care rules any time of the year. This product features a book discussion guide and four printables focused on book c
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.2
, RL.1.2
, RL.2.3
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Wild About Books / Book Bite / Book Care
Wild About Books by Judy Sierra is PERFECT for introducing your library and for reinforcing book care. This oldie but goodie follows a librarian, Molly McGrew as she unwittingly pulls her bookmobile into a zoo. After reading aloud from the good Dr. Seuss, she has hooked all of the animals on this new something call reading. With fun and fanciful rhyming, we follow the zoo animals as they read, and read, and then read some more! Molly needs to teach lessons on how to care for books. Soon, the ani
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.4
, RL.1.5
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
A Library Book for Bear / Book Bite / Reading Interest Survey
A Library Book for Bear, by Bonny Becker is the perfect picture book to introduce reading interests surveys to students. Read the story, and then have kids complete these differentiated reading surveys! Bear thinks that a visit to the library is completely unnecessary. He has ALL of the books that he needs at home! But, a promise is a promise, so Bear does go to the library with his friend Mouse. At the library, Bear is being super picky about the kind of books that he wants. He wants ONLY a bo
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.2
, RL.K.7
, RL.1.2
+3
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
A Book About Book Parts & Title Pages
A six page print and go document that can be used to reinforce parts of a book, title page, call numbers, and fiction/nonfiction terms. Kids love that together the pages create a "book about a book". There is a single page covering each of the following concepts ... 1) Parts of a book: Front Cover, Back Cover, Spine, and Call Number 2) Title Page: Locating title, author, illustrator, and publisher 3) Call Numbers: sorting fiction and nonfiction call numbers (just for my librarian peeps) 4) Ficti
1st - 2nd
Informational Text, Library Skills
Also included in: Elementary Library Skills and Resources Bundle #1
Give Me Back My Book / Book Bite / Parts of a Book
Give Me Back My Book! by Travis Foster shares the tale of two friends, Redd and Bloo who are “discussing” {quite loudly at times} who owns a particular green book with a hard cover, a nice spine, and pages that turn from left to right. As the two play tug of war with their favorite book, a bookworm appears and makes off with it. It takes teamwork for them to recover their well-loved book. This humorous title is the perfect segue into a discussion/review of the parts of a book. This product fea
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.7
, RL.1.7
, RL.2.7
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
My First Research Project: Spiders
Simplify the research process so that early readers and writers will find success. This project is perfect for the common core shared research standard!
My First Research Project Includes
1) A Title Page
2) Are You Scared of Spiders? (A way of activating prior knowledge)
3) Spider Wonders (An independent questioning technique)
4) All About a Spider's Body (A recording page for research)
5) What Does a Spider Eat (A recording page for research)
6) What Can a Spider Do? (A recording page for rese
K - 2nd
Informational Text, Library Skills
CCSS
RI.K.1
, RI.1.1
, RI.1.5
+5
Also included in: My First Animal Research Project {BUNDLE}
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! / Book Bite
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! is a humorous tale of a first time gardener, Mr. McGreely, who cannot wait to fill his tummy with yummy vegetables. However, he soon discovers that, when the sun goes down and the moon goes up, three little bunnies find their way into his garden and munch away. Mr. McGreely soon makes plans to thwart those bunnies. However, these bunnies are smarter than your average bunnies, and they find their way into his garden night after night! This product features a book discussio
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Memoirs of a Goldfish / Book Bite
There is no better story than Memoirs of a Goldfish to discuss characterization, memoirs, and stepping out of your comfort zone. Goldfish has a perfectly contented life! He simply swims around his fishbowl. But slowly, day by day, Goldfish’s tank becomes very crowded with a whole crew of new additions. Goldfish becomes quite desperate for his old, empty tank. Then, with a whoosh, a splash, a clank and a plunge, Goldfish is all alone. And he is quite happy to be back in an empty, uncluttered tank
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RI.K.3
, RI.1.3
, RI.2.3
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Discovery Journal: Iroquois People of the Longhouse
This Discovery Journal encourages students to read, research, and respond to five different facets of Iroquois life: shelter, food, clothing/tanning, jobs, and ceremonies. Students learn best when they are given tasks that require them to search for new information, process that information, and then manipulate that same information. This Discovery Journal does exactly that with the five following activities.
Page 1 - Iroquois Shelter: Students need to respond to three questions and create capt
3rd - 5th
Informational Text, Native Americans, Reading Strategies
Book Bite {Overdue: The Misadventure of Bob the Book}
Overdue: The Misadventure of Bob the Book by Gloria Koster is a children's picture book told from the perspective of Bob, a popular library book at an elementary school. Bob is checked out by Sebastian, whose family mistreats the book. First, his sister gets peanut butter on it, then his brother places toys on the cover, and finally, Sebastian doesn't even read it! Bob ends up lost on a kitchen shelf between cookbooks for months until a librarian's overdue notice prompts Sebastian to find and fi
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills
CCSS
RL.K.1
, RL.1.1
, RL.1.4
+3
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
My First Research Project: Owls
Simplify the research process so that early readers and writers will find success. This project is perfect for the common core shared research standard!
My First Research Project Includes
1) A Title Page
2) I Already Know That Owls ... (A way of activating prior knowledge)
3) I Want To Know If Owls ... (An independent questioning technique)
4) All Kinds of Owls (A recording page for research)
5) An Owl's Body (A recording page for research)
6) What Do Owls Eat (A recording page for research)
7)
K - 2nd
Informational Text, Library Skills
Also included in: My First Animal Research Project {BUNDLE}
A to Z Animal Research Booklet | Pebble Go Research Report | Elementary Library
This A to Z Animal Research Booklet is the perfect PebbleGo research companion for elementary library and classroom lessons in grades K through 3. Fully aligned with PebbleGo, this animal research project covers 25 animals from A to Z and introduces young researchers to note taking, citation, and information literacy skills in a format even your earliest learners can handle independently. Kids love animals! This project takes that enthusiasm and turns it into a real research experience. Each of
1st - 3rd
Informational Text, Library Skills, Writing
Also included in: Elementary Library Skills and Resources Bundle#2
How I Became a Pirate / Book Bite
"How I Became a Pirate" by Melinda Long follows young Jeremy Jacob who joins a pirate crew after they invite him aboard their ship. While he enjoys the adventures like treasure hunting and sailing, he soon discovers that pirate life means no bedtime stories or comfort when he's scared, making him realize he misses his family and chooses to return home. ☑️ Book Bite Lesson Objective ☑️ Students will listen to the story, How I Became a Pirate, and will use context clues to guess the definition of
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.4
, RL.1.4
, RL.2.4
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Research Short: Turkey Talk
Is Turkey Day right around the corner? What a perfect time for a bit of research on this famous bird! Even our youngest students need to be able to access information by identifying key words and scanning for text-based evidence.
Although this Research Short is designed to be used with Capstone's PebbleGo Animals database, it could be used with books and other resources as well. The project will lead students in reading a question and identifying the specific keyword to focus on ... body, habi
K - 2nd
Informational Text, Library Skills
Also included in: Research Short {BUNDLE}
Research Short: Money Around the World
This quick research activity requires students to search for and record the name of the currency of different countries. After researching, students will conduct an Internet search for a currency converter, and then write down the value of each foreign currency.
This Research Short is perfect for reviewing keyword searches and information scanning. Consider using it to practice the utilization of either online or printed encyclopedias.
Aligns perfectly with 2013 Reading Street - Grade 3, Unit
3rd - 5th
Informational Text, Library Skills, Reading
Also included in: Research Short {BUNDLE}
Book Bite / Creepy Carrots!
Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds is the perfect story to read to your kids for a little bit of spooky fun. Jasper Rabbit loves the carrots of Crackenhopper Field, for a snack that is. The carrots, however, do not feel the same way about Jasper. So, they hatch a plan to keep him out of their field. *****************************************************************************************************************************************************DO NOT PURCHASE ME IF YOU ARE PURCHASING OR HAVE AL
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.3
, RL.1.3
, RL.2.3
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Very Impatient Caterpillar Book Bite | Fact vs Fiction Spring Read Aloud
Explore fact vs fiction and the butterfly life cycle with this picture book read aloud and comprehension Book Bite for The Very Impatient Caterpillar. This elementary picture book lesson focuses on distinguishing fact from fiction as students listen to the hilariously dramatic story of a caterpillar who really, really does not want to wait for metamorphosis. While laughing along with the impatient little caterpillar, students discover that real science is hiding inside the story, helping them m
PreK - 3rd
Biology, Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.1
, RL.K.3
, RL.1.1
+1
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
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About the store
Experience
Hi! I’m Sonya and the creator behind The Library Patch. As a retired elementary school librarian with 12 years of classroom experience and 19 years in the school library, I know firsthand that being the only librarian in your building, or even your entire district, can be hard. There’s often no one down the hall to bounce ideas off of, no team planning library lessons with you, and very little extra time to create everything from scratch. That’s where I hope to help.
After decades in schools, I design resources that are engaging, flexible, and realistic for real library schedules. Everything in my store is created with busy librarians and elementary teachers in mind—easy to use, thoughtfully planned, and ready to implement without extra prep. Thanks so much for stopping by The Library Patch. I’m truly glad you’re here—and I’m here to help.
Teaching style
I am a very “unquiet” librarian. My library was a constant buzz of kids, laughter, questions, conversations, gaming, computer use—and, of course, books. I believe students learn best when they are actively engaged, exploring ideas, and answering their own questions rather than sitting quietly on the sidelines.
I also believe that today’s librarian must stay responsive to the ever-changing world of education. When we grow, adapt, and keep learning, we’re better equipped to support both our students and the teachers we collaborate with every day.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Ahh… if only I had something impressive and nationally recognized to list here! I don’t. But I have been called “The Best Librarian Ever” by a few little ones, told that I’m “pretty cool,” and lovingly known as that awesome book lady. Not exactly fancy honors—but I’d choose those sweet titles over a plaque any day.
My own education history
* Bachelor's in Elementary Education ~ Potsdam SUNY
* Bachelor's in English Literature and Writing ~ Potsdam SUNY
* Master's In Elementary Education ~ Potsdam SUNY
* Master's In School Library and Media ~ Mansfield University
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