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Fourth Grade Library Media Program |
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The Library Media Center curriculum:
Promotes multicultural and global awareness through literature and other
library media.
Fourth Graders will:
- Read and listen to stories representing the diversity of our world
- Discuss cultural perspective
- Develop awareness and appreciation of cultural differences through selected
readings
- Develop global awareness through non-fiction books and map skills
- Use non-fiction, maps, and periodicals to enhance fiction and world folklore
- Access and read multicultural literature that ties in state projects
- Look for universal themes in literature
Supports the SFDS community’s passion for literature
Fourth Graders will:
- Meet with visiting authors and/or illustrators
- Engage in book talks
- Select books for personal reading
Provides a framework for the organization of information
Fourth Graders will:
- Locate materials by using Dewey Decimal call number
- Understand how to use databases, catalogs, and indices
- Begin to use Big Chalk Library to search for information
- Identify, locate and use
- Use Something About the Author for author reports
- Work with atlases
- Use encyclopedias for research project
- Practice using the thesaurus
- Learn to use World Book on-line
Teaches students to how access information
Fourth Graders will:
- Improve research skills
- Review process of accessing information
- Demonstrate ability to find appropriate materials for a given task
- Gather resources and materials for independent reading projects
- Keep bibliographic list of selected material
- Continue to access resource outside of LMC – libraries, museums,
people, and electronic resources.
Promotes a critical and creative understanding of information
Fourth Graders will:
- Evaluate, analyze and interpret information
- Identify the main ideas from the information gathering
- Create note cards by outlining and summarizing information
- Ask questions about information gathered
- Understand authors have bias and perspective
- Interpret charts, graphs and tables
Provides a framework for students to analyze mass media
Fourth Graders will:
- Continue working toward a critical understanding of mass media
- Continue discussion of mass media as a consumable product
- Define stereotypes, biases and propaganda techniques in print and non-print
and electronic resources
Promotes social responsibility and an ethical understanding of using and
generating information
Fourth Graders will:
- Continue working toward a critical understanding of mass media
- Continue discussion of mass media as a consumable product
- 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 state
- Demonstrate an 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
Advances communication skills through oral, written, visual, and multimedia
applications
Fourth Graders will:
- Prepare a multimedia presentations
- Demonstrate persuasion and research skill in the form of a debate
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