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Primary Skills
Students will:
1. recognize and appreciate all Media Center rules.
2. know that a variety of materials are found in the Media Center, including books, audiovisual materials and periodicals.
3. understand that the Media Center is a quiet place for reading and learning.
4. understand the basic role of the School Media Specialist.
5. locate picture books in the Media Center.
6. understand the basic concepts of book care.
7. select a picture book and quietly read through it, turning pages and handling the book in an appropriate manner.
8. select a book appropriate to their reading level.
9. replace a picture book on the shelf in the correct location, with the spine facing out.
10. identify the basic parts of a book, including author, title, illustrations, cover and spine.
11. recognize that authors write books and select books written by certain authors.
12. name two authors of children's books.
13. understand that there are many different characters in books (The Berenstain Bears, Clifford, Curious George, and Dr. Seuss).
14. name two book characters.
15. evaluate books by discussing likes and dislikes and the quality of the literature.
Students will:
1. recognize and appreciate all Media Center rules.
2. understand that you can participate in a variety of activities in the Media Center, including listening to stories, reading books and periodicals, checking out books, listening to audiotapes, watching videotapes, working on the computers, locating information and working on art projects.
3. be able to locate picture books and non-fiction books in the Media Center.
4. identify the basic parts of a book, including author, title, illustrator, illustrations, cover, spine, title page, table of contents.
5. locate the correct chapter in a table of contents and tell where to locate it in the book.
6. identify title, author, illustrator and publisher on a title page.
7. listen quietly to stories for up to 30 minutes.
8. participate in sustained silent reading.
9. develop an appreciation for authors and select books to check out by certain authors.
Students will:
1. understand the difference between print and non-print materials and be able to define audiovisual.
2. understand and be able to explain the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
3. locate selected non-fiction subjects in the non-fiction section of the Media Center.
4. locate reference books in the Media Center and give a definition of reference materials.
5. understand the uses of a dictionary and that it is a reference book.
6. understand that encyclopedias are arranged in alphabetical order and that they are reference books.
7. recognize and appreciate books which have won the Caldecott Medal and other awards.
8. recognize and appreciate certain authors and illustrators and locate books by these individuals
9. understand the concept that fiction books are arranged on the shelf by author's last name.
10. identify the basic parts of a book, including author, title, illustrator, illustrations, cover, spine, title page, table of contents, glossary and index.
11. locate information in a book index and tell where to locate the information in the book.
12. define words using a glossary in a book.
13. design their own book cover, including author, title and illustrator on the cover.
14. be introduced to books with chapters.
Students will:
1. define the parts of a book, including author, title, illustrator, illustrations, cover, spine, title page, table of contents, glossary, index, publisher, place of publication and copyright date.
2. use a table of contents to locate a chapter and explain what information will be found in that chapter.
3. understand that fiction, non-fiction, reference and periodicals are four of the main categories in the Media Center.
4. choose and appreciate books which have several chapters.
5. understand that non-fiction books are arranged in a number order.
6. locate fairy tale and folk tales in the 398 section of the Media Center and select them for pleasure reading.
7. list and select works by favorite authors and compose an appropriate book review.
8. be able to define and locate reference books in the Media Center.
9. understand how to use print and electronic encyclopedias to locate information.
11. define an atlas as a book of maps and be able to use it to locate information.
12. recognize that "periodicals" is another word for magazines and newspapers and appreciate them as a source for reference and leisure reading.
13. recognize that magazines and periodicals provide current information.
14. locate materials in the Media Center using the On-line Public Access Catalog (OPAC), using title searches.
Intermediate Skills
Students will:
1. understand that the Media Center is divided into several categories, including picture books, fiction, non-fiction, reference, paperbacks and periodicals.
2. use print and electronic encyclopedias to locate information.
3. be introduced to the concept of plagiarism and paraphrase information for reports.
4. use indexes to encyclopedias to locate articles.
5. write a bibliography with the correct annotations.
6. define all the parts of a book, including author, title, illustrator, illustrations, cover, spine, title page, table of contents, glossary, index, publisher, place of publication, copyright date, appendix, bibliography, forward and preface.
7. define a biography as a true book about a person's life.
8. know that biographies are arranged on the shelf in alphabetical order by person's (not author's) last name.
9. locate biographies in the Media Center.
10. define the Children's Magazine Guide as an index to magazine articles and use the Children's Magazine Guide to locate a specific article in a magazine.
11. understand that fiction is made up of many genres and name two of these genres. (Animal Stories, Humor, Mysteries,, Short Stories, etc...)
12. recognize that there are a variety of authors and be able to select reading materials by a variety of authors.
13. locate materials in the Media Center using the OPAC, using title and author searches.
Students will:
1. recognize that non-fiction books are arranged in Dewey Decimal order, the origin of this numbering system and be able to locate books on the shelf using this system.
2. understand that fiction is made up of many different genres. (Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Science Fiction, etc...)
3. choose a variety of books to read from the different genres.
4. understand the origin of the Newbery Medal and read and appreciate books which have won the Medal.
5. use a variety of sources (print, electronic and Internet) to research information on a topic.
6. locate and use all reference materials, including encyclopedias (print and Internet), dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases, almanacs and other reference books to locate information.
7. understand the concept of plagiarism and paraphrase information from reference materials for research projects.
8. use the Children's Magazine Guide to locate information in periodicals.
9. define a bibliography as a list of sources used and be able to interpret information in a bibliography.
10. locate materials in the Media Center using the OPAC, using title, author, subject and power searches.
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