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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State Report | State Research Project | Interactive
State report season just got a whole lot more exciting. This lift-a-flap state report turns what could be a routine research project into something kids actually look forward to. They research their assigned state, fill in their flaps, assemble everything together, and end up with an interactive display piece they can't wait to show off. It's engaging, it's hands-on, and it makes state research feel like so much more than just filling in a worksheet. Students research everything about their stat
3rd - 5th
Geography, Informational Text, Library Skills
CCSS
RI.3.1
, RI.3.5
, RI.3.7
+7
Library Lion | Picture Book Activities for Library | Differentiated Read Aloud
Library Lion is a perfect intro to the library and its rules. Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. You must be quiet, and there shall be no running. When a lion wanders into the library, no one is quite sure what to do. However, Miss Merriweather decides that as long as the lion follows the rules, he may continue to visit the library. Come to find out, he is well-suited for the library. But then, a day comes when lion must choose whether to follow
PreK - 3rd
Library Skills, Literature
CCSS
RL.K.1
, RL.1.1
, RL.2.1
+1
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
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
Escape the Library: A Unique Library Orientation
Have you been wanting to try Escape Room activities in your library? Well, NOW is the time. Shake up you library orientation this year with an Escape the Library project that will get your students talking!! Talking about your library’s organization, behavior rules, checkout procedures, and book care! It all begins with a quick read of “Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library” by Julie Gassman. After listening to the story, students will learn that someone did in fact bring their dragons to t
5th - 7th
Library Skills
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
Fiction or Nonfiction PPT and Book Sort
Even our youngest readers need to be able to decipher between fiction and nonfiction texts. This PPT presentation and book sort activity is perfect for reinforcing this foundational skill.
The baseball themed Powerpoint Presentation, Hit the Books, will assist you in leading your students through a series of questions that they could ask themselves in deciding whether a text is fiction or nonfiction. The PPT presentation is partially editable. The background of the slides has been secured; howe
1st - 3rd
Library Skills, Reading Strategies
Also included in: Elementary Library Skills and Resources Bundle #1
An All About Me Poster Activity
An "All About Me" report that will win over your older students. This Lift-a-Flap report presents students biographical information in a new and creative way!! Great for that "Getting to Know" you period of back to to. It would also be perfect for student of the week programs, open houses, and even building classroom community. This bundle includes a report tailored for the guys, one for the girls, and one that could be used by either one! A graphic organizer is included to guide students in gat
3rd - 6th
Writing
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
Library Lesson / Book Care Activity & Mini-Book
You know that you have to teach book care in the library, right? Well, let’s make that lesson is fun and engaging for both you and the kids! The Books ARRRR Treasure slideshow and mini coloring book will have the kids hooked on taking care of their books in no time. Need library lessons on MORE than just book care? Check out our Elementary Library Skills and Resources Bundles. You can SAVE over 25% off with the purchase of the bundle over individually purchasing products. With the purchase of
K - 2nd
Library Skills, Reading
Also included in: Elementary Library Skills and Resources Bundle #1
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
Famous USA Landmarks/Symbols Research Flipbook
Don't just research the famous landmarks and symbols of the USA. Create a fun flipbook! This project requires the students to research pertinent facts about eight famous American landmarks and then actively engages them in putting together a project that they will be proud to take home.
The eight famous landmarks include Mount Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, White House, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Memorial, and the Capitol.
This product includes all the necessary pri
2nd - 4th
Geography, Informational Text, Library Skills
Bat Research Report
An eleven-page EASY research bat project, perfect for teaching the common core shared research standard with even your earliest researchers!
My First Research Project Includes
1) A Title Page
2) Have You Ever Seen a Bat? (A way of activating prior knowledge)
3) Myth or Fact (Another way for activating prior knowledge)
4) I Wonder if Bats ... (An independent questioning technique)
5) Bats, Bats, Everywhere (Finding differences between micro and megabats)
6) All About a Bat's Body (A recording pa
K - 2nd
Informational Text, Library Skills
Also included in: My First Animal Research Project {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
Battle of the Beasts: Dinosaur Research
This isn't your ordinary dinosaur research report! Oh no, it's a battle of epic proportions. Students will research a dinosaur, with a focus on its strengths and weaknesses as hunter or defender, and then pair up with a peer to put their dinosaurs in an imaginary head to head battle. Students will need to utilize their critical thinking skills in conjunction with their acquired knowledge to discuss what a battle between their two beasts would have looked like. Ultimately, students will transfer
3rd - 6th
Informational Text, Library Skills, Writing
CCSS
W.3.7
, W.4.7
, W.5.7
+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}
The Library Fish / Book Bite / Library Vocabulary
The Library Fish is a sweet library adventure. Mr. Hughes the librarian finds a fish on the front steps of the library. He brings her into the library and aptly names her Library Fish. Library Fish makes friends in the library and on the bookmobile, checks that books are returned, and absolutely loves story time. One day everything outside is covered in snow and not a single person comes into the library to visit. Library Fish is so eager to read a book that she escapes her tank, finds her favor
PreK - 3rd
English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.K.1
, RL.K.3
, RL.1.1
+5
Also included in: Book Bite Bundle
Library Book Call Number Hunt
Time to head back to school and back to those books! Don't miss this fun activity that will engage your library patrons in a practice session on locating call numbers! The kids won't even know that you are putting them to work. An engaging library call number activity + secret code decipher + silly riddle = ALL FUN!! Kids need TONS of practice using call numbers to locate library books on the shelves!! This scavenger hunt will have your kiddos locating a book on the shelves in the picture book,
3rd - 5th
Library Skills
Also included in: Call Number Hunt Growing 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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