Authors: Judith Sykes
ISBN-13: 9781563085079, ISBN-10: 1563085070
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
JUDITH SYKES, former teacher-librarian, is principal of an elementary school in Calgary, Canada.
Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills! This book documents a continuous library center program with a series of mini-lessons that cover topics from bears, books, and dinosaurs to natural resources, rockets, and Victorian holiday traditions. Projects use different types of media (e.g., books, tapes, CD-ROMs, the Internet), giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources-to find books; use the library catalog, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and CD-ROMs; alphabetize; perform author research, build a bibliography, create a book cover and poster; role play; conduct a video interview; and so on. For each center, the author provides reproducible instruction cards, a list of materials, and suggestions for implementation. Various assessment tools are recommended-observation checklists, coaching and discussion, presentations, celebrations, and formal checklists to be
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Ch. 1 | ABC Bears | 1 |
Ch. 2 | ABC Bookworms | 15 |
Ch. 3 | Bridge Books | 29 |
Ch. 4 | Junior Authors | 41 |
Ch. 5 | Rattling Readers | 53 |
Ch. 6 | Book Basics | 63 |
Ch. 7 | Victorian Holiday Traditions | 77 |
Ch. 8 | Egypt Old and New | 89 |
Ch. 9 | Ancient Greece | 103 |
Ch. 10 | Titanic | 115 |
Ch. 11 | Space | 129 |
Ch. 12 | Natives | 139 |
Ch. 13 | Natural Resources | 149 |
Ch. 14 | History 100 | 163 |
Ch. 15 | Links Within Borders | 177 |
Ch. 16 | Regions | 189 |
Ch. 17 | Exploration | 201 |
Ch. 18 | Links Across Borders | 213 |
Ch. 19 | Center Tips | 223 |