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Third Grade Library Media Program |
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The Library Media Center curriculum:
Promotes multicultural and global awareness through literature and other
library media.
Third Graders will:
- Listen to stories from a variety of cultural backgrounds
- Read material representing the diversity of our world
- Develop an awareness and appreciation of cultural differences through selected
readings
- Conduct discussions on perspective
- Use maps and atlases to find the location of places from stories
- Read and listen to folklore from a variety of Native American Nations
Supports and encourages an individual’s passion for literature
Third Graders will:
- Be introduced to critical reading strategies
- Meet with visiting authors and illustrators
- Demonstrate knowledge of favorite books
- Recommend favorite authors and titles
- Engage in “Book Talks”
- Begin to keep a Literature Logs
Provides a framework for the organization of information
Third Graders will:
- Review the Dewy Decimal system
- Demonstrate ability to locate any call number in the LMC
- Alphabetize books by author
- Use reference materials for research project
- Practice using a table of contents and indices
- Begin to use Something About the Author
- Be introduce the thesaurus
- Begin to use an atlas
- Continue learning dictionary skills
- Use an encyclopedia for a researching information
- Learn to use Electric Library
Teaches students how to access information
Third Graders will:
- Review process of accessing information
- Identify information sources
- Demonstrate ability to find appropriate materials for a given task
- Evaluate materials for ability level
- Keep bibliographic list of selected material
- Select appropriate materials for a research topic with assistance and independently
- Locate and use materials from all areas of the library
- Continue to access resource outside of LMC – libraries, museums,
people, and electronic resources.
Promotes a critical and creative understanding of information
Third Graders will:
- Identify the main ideas from information
- Create note cards by outlining and summarizing information
- Ask questions about information gathered
- Interpret charts, graphs and tables
- Understand bias and perspective in non-fiction
Provides a framework for students to analyze mass media
Third Graders will:
- Continue discussion of mass media as a consumable product that requires
thoughtful evaluation
- Deconstruct age appropriate commercial movies and advertisements
- Define stereotypes, biases and propaganda techniques in print and non-print
and electronic resources
- Analyze the effects of media on an individual, a community, city, and Native
American nations
Promotes social responsibility and an ethical understanding of the use and
generation of ideas
Third Graders will:
- Demonstrate understanding of laws and guidelines that protect ownership
of ideas and information
- Apply bibliography to research reports to give credit for information
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of responsible and fair
use of information
- Discuss importance of responsible use of information
Advances communication skills through oral, written, visual, and multimedia
applications
Third Graders will:
- Continue negotiation skills to resolve hypothetical conflicts
- Continue learning persuasion skills
- Examine popular children’s magazines to find examples of persuasion
- Demonstrate persuasion and research skill in the form of a debate
- Combine media formats to promote a favorite book
- Use a multimedia approach to create a book report or an author promotion
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