The Library Media Center curriculum:
Promotes multicultural and global awareness through literature and other
library media.
First Graders Graders will:
- Listen to stories and folklore from a wide range of cultures
- Identify perspective in literature as a reader (listener)
- Discuss the concept of diversity as a way to learn about others
- Experience literature as a mirror of the reader's experience or a privileged
glimpse through a window to other's experiences
- View maps of places from stories
- Develop a global awareness through non-fiction books
- View children's periodicals that reflect a wider world
Supports and encourages an individual's passion for literature
First Graders Graders will:
- Listen to stories with attentive and purposeful listening and viewing
skills
- Continue to ask themselves questions about the author's purpose in writing
the book
- Demonstrate knowledge of favorite book titles
- Recognize favorite authors and illustrators
- Learn about authors
- Make book recommendations to fellow students
Promotes stewardship of our communal resources
First Graders graders will:
- Learn that the LMC is valuable shared resource
- Continue to demonstrate proper care for library materials
- Show responsibility in caring for materials and returning them on time
- Respect the library as a quiet place for all students to read, write,
study and think
Provides a framework for the organization of information
First Graders Graders will:
- Review organization of the LMC
- Learn the Dewy Decimal System
- Alphabetize to the first and second letter
- Learn about the Reference Section
- Differentiate between basic media formats (print, audio, visual, electronic,
etc.) and understand the different characteristics of each
Teaches students how to access information
First Graders Graders will:
- Begin to use the LMC's electronic database (OPAC)
- Use OPAC searches to find books by subject and keyword
- Select appropriate materials independently
- Demonstrate awareness of resources outside of LMC – libraries,
museums, people, and electronic resources
Promotes a critical and creative understanding of information
First Graders Graders will:
- Determine the basic information in materials using oral clues
- Identify a sequence of events from a story
- Recall content from fiction and non-fiction materials
- Distinguish differences between fiction and non-fiction
Provides a framework for students to analyze mass media
First Graders Graders will:
- Develop an awareness of the persuasion tools used in mass media
- Understand that media requires thoughtful evaluation
- Examine age appropriate commercial movies and advertisements
- Think about the effects media has on an individual, family, and community
Promotes social responsibility and an ethical understanding of the use
and generation of ideas
First Graders graders will:
- Review the concept of ownership of ideas and information
- Review the concept of giving credit for information
Advances communication skills through oral, written, visual, and multimedia
applications
First Graders Graders will:
- Review negotiation and persuasion techniques to solve a hypothetical
conflict
- Make an oral presentation on a favorite book, story, or poem
- Write and illustrate a picture book
- Prepare a multimedia presentation on a favorite piece of literature
or poetry
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