Library Centers: Teaching Information Literacy, Skills, and Processes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781563085079)

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

Author: Judith Anne Sykes
ISBN-10: 1563085070
ISBN-13: 9781563085079
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 08/15/1997
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.97h x 8.50w x 0.63d