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Sorting
Learners practice sorting books. For this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, learners sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...
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Online Public Access Catalog
Fourth graders learn how to find books in the library. In this library lesson plan, 4th graders observe how to use an online system to search for a book by title, author and subject. Students practice searching for books.
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Orientation to the Library
High schoolers participate in an orientation to the high school library and locate various resources. In this orientation to the library instructional activity, students are introduced to the library by the media specialist. They learn...
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Community Locations - Police Station, Fire Station, Library, Post Office
Learners get excited about their community which can be extended through visits from members of the community or field trips. In this community helpers activity, students demonstrate knowledge of the interaction of location, family,...
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Places in My Community - Parks, Library, Hospital, School
Students exhibit their knowledge of community. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify areas of their neighborhood and local community by recognizing pictures of various locations, including parks, libraries, hospitals,...
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School-Home Links/Book Links
In this visiting a local library worksheet, learners record what stood out in the book they selected to check out, the title, the author, and what they learned about the library. Students write two short answers.
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Learning About the Library - School/Home Links, Book Links
In this home-school literature worksheet, students go to a library and pick out a book they would like to read. They check out the book, and write down the title and author. They read the book with their learning partner before...
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I Want To Go To the Library
Students are introduced to the library as a resource to obtain reading material. After a review of the way to correct reading mistakes, students travel to the school library to select a book according to their reading level. They...
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Exploring the Library
Students explore ways to use the library as a resource for accessing research material. Working individually, they participate in a teacher created library scavenger hunt to aid in locating fiction and nonfiction material as well as...
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The Library Dragon
Third graders examine the role of the library media specialist in the school by listening to a read aloud of The Library Dragon and visiting Carmen Agra Deedy's website. They talk about respect for the books and the others using the...
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Leo the Library Mouse
Second graders share how they should take care of library media center books and display their ideas for others to see. They read the book, LEO THE LIBARY MOUSE and discuss book care rules and reflect on how they compare with the main...
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Huey and Louie Meet Dewey
Young scholars exercise their library shelving skills. Students complete a worksheet that aids a rambunctious student who needs their help. Young scholars become familiar with the Dewey decimal classification system. Students organize...
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Library Scavenger Hunt
Students work together to locate and identify resources in the library. They use the internet to answer research questions. They share the information they gathered with the class.
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Save the Library!
Students discuss library resources and how to locate them by answering various scenarios. Role-playing as librarians, they write essays stating five reasons why the library should not be closed down.
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Not Just Books
Students consider uses of a library and explore the collections at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City, and create proposals for exhibits of various artifacts.
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The Relatedness of Languages
Students use Internet and library resources to select and examine the origins of phrases or words, particularly words that have origins in other languages.
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Reader's Paradise
Students visit the school or local library (or bookstore) to create short film or radio documentary that records a specific habit or ritual associated with reading, book buying, or book borrowing.
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Where Do I Belong? - Part Two
Students organize library books using their library catalogue numbers. In this library books lesson, students receive four books to identify and then place in order according to their library information.
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Glossaries and Indexes
Fourth graders identify parts of a book including the glossary, index, and dedication. In this glossary and index activity, 4th graders complete a worksheet after studying the glossary and index from a Houghton Mifflin Social Studies...
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Library Media
Fifth graders find or shelve books in the library. In this library books instructional activity, 5th graders find books and learn how to shelve books in the library.
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Modesto City Schools Library Lesson Plan
Students read and understand a variety of genres in a library setting. In this library activity lesson, students act as detectives and use clues in text and pictures to hypothesize the title of the missing book for the library reading...
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28 Things to Do in the Library
In this library activity instructional activity, students complete the 28 sentences with a word or phrase from the word bank that describe the things to do in the library.
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Library Visit 2 Activity
In this literacy worksheet, middle schoolers look for the words that are related to the concept of using the media center and library. The information is used to write a paper.
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Library Visit Paper
In this language arts learning exercise, students use the information in order to be come acquainted with visiting the library and as a source of information to write a paper.