Kindergarten Library Skills and Literature - Roseburg Public Schools

Go thougheach point.the form with students telling what kind of information they need forENCYCLOPEDIASIntroduce first source using overheads. Explain they are in alphabetical order,have many volumes. Show overhead of split -letter and unit letter encyclopediasso they can see how to select the right volume. Talk about guide words, whichthey should remember from using dictionaries. Let them know we select ourvolume by the letters on the volumes and we put them away by the numbers onthe volumes.There are general encyclopedias, which have information about everything, andspecial encyclopedias, which have information just in one area (show overhead).Students may have a volume from either kind. Show the sets of general andspecial animal encyclopedias we have in the library.Send students back to select one volume (Tell them that they can only reallyread one at a time and we don’t want to hog up the volumes! When they aredone with one, they may get another). Students who have not finished theirPresearch page need to do so before they get their encyclopedia.Rest of time is spent looking and reading from their encyclopedia. Collectstudent’s papers, they are not to go home, but will stay in the library as we add tothem each day.Lesson 2: Online Library Catalog (Books and Magazines)/Partsof a Book/Works CitedReview: OPAC search strategies from Third Grade Curriculum. Remind studentsthat in research they almost always use SUBJECT. Review Keyword and remindthem that it is not the first search strategy, but the last. Remind students how tofill out a call slip. For Magazine, we need the whole title line which includesMonth, Day, Year. Also review parts of a book so students know wherepublishing information is and to remember how to use the table of contents,glossary and index.Lesson: Explain the importance of the Works Cited page. This is the way wekeep track of our sources. The more sources we have, the more the workbecome ours. Teachers are very interested in where students get theirinformation and whether it is a good source. Make sure students write down theinformation for each source as they go along.Pass out student’s research papers. Call a few students at a time to use OPAC(monitor them) Let them write down the information for one or two books ormagazines. Others may get encyclopedias and work.