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Second Grade Library Media Program |
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The Library Media Center curriculum:
Promotes multicultural and global awareness through literature and other
library media.
Second Graders will:
- Listen to stories and world folklore from a wide range of cultures
- Identify an author’s perspective
- Experience literature as a mirror of the reader’s experience or a privileged
glimpse through a window to other’s experiences
- Use simple maps to find location of places from stories
- Develop a global awareness through non-fiction books
- Use children’s periodicals that reflect a wider world
Supports and encourages an individual’s passion for literature
Second Graders will:
- Listen to stories with attentive and purposeful listening and viewing skills
- Review care of books and other materials
- Learn to ask themselves questions about
- Demonstrate knowledge of favorite book titles
- Recognize favorite authors and illustrators
- Have an author of the month
- Engage in “Book Talks”
Provides a framework for the organization of information
Second Graders will:
- Review the operations and procedures of LMC
- Identify all sections of the library using the Dewy Decimal system
- Alphabetize to the second letter
- Use reference materials for a research project
- Review basic media formats
- Learn how to use a table of contents
- Begin to learn dictionary skills
Teaches students how to access information
Second Graders will:
- Search for books electronically by key word, author, subject, and title
- Select reference materials with assistance and independently
- Restate the scope and ground rules of a task without prompting
- Identify existing knowledge of a topic and independently list areas where
more information is needed
- Frame an essential question related to a topic of interest or assignment
with assistance
- Describe a course of action to address an essential research question
- Demonstrate ability to find materials through the electronic database
- Select appropriate materials for a research topic with assistance and independently
- Locate and use materials from all areas of the library
- Use one resource outside of LMC – libraries, museums, people, and
electronic resources
Promotes a critical and creative understanding of information
Second Graders will:
- Determine the basic information in materials
- Identify a sequence of events
- Recall content
- Learn to ask questions about what they read
- Interpret simple charts, graphs and tables
Provides a framework for students to analyze mass media
Second Graders will:
- Develop an awareness of the persuasion tools used in mass media
- Understand that media requires thoughtful evaluation
- Deconstruct age appropriate commercial movies and advertisements
- Analyze the effects of media on an individual, family, community, and city
- Discuss male and female stereotypes in children’s programs
Promotes social responsibility and an ethical understanding of the use and
generation of ideas
Second Graders will:
- Review the concept of ownership of ideas and information
- Review the concept of giving credit for information
- Review the concept of fair use
- Review the concept of responsible use
Advances communication skills through oral, written, visual, and multimedia
applications
Second Graders will:
- Use negotiation skills to resolve a hypothetical conflict
- Become familiar with basic persuasion techniques
- Present an original research report on an animal of their choice
- Combine media formats to promote a favorite book
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