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Kindergarten Library Media Program |
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The Library Media Center curriculum:
Promotes multicultural and global awareness through literature and other
library media
Kindergartners 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.
- Learn to access world folklore
- View maps of places from stories
- View children's periodicals that focus on world cultures
Supports and encourages an individual's passion for literature
Kindergartners will:
- Listen to stories with attentive and purposeful listening and viewing
skills
- Identify the title, author, and illustrator of a book
- Demonstrate knowledge of favorite picture book titles
- Recognize favorite authors and illustrators
Promotes stewardship of our communal resources
Kindergartners will:
- Learn that the LMC is valuable shared resource
- Demonstrate proper care for library materials
- Understand that checking out a book is making a promise to take care of
that book and return it 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
Kindergartners will:
- Identify areas of the LMC
- Understand that books have a home in the library
- Alphabetize by the first letter
- Recognize basic media formats: print, audio, visual, periodicals, reference,
and electronic
Teaches students how to access information
Kindergartners will:
- Have knowledge of the LMC’s electronic database (OPAC)
- Learn that books may be found in OPAC by searching for a subjet
- Learn how to select books with assistance and independently
- Check out books
- Demonstrate an awareness of resources outside the LMC – libraries,
museums, people, and electronic resources
Promotes a critical and creative understanding of information
Kindergartners will:
- Determine basic information in materials using picture or oral clues
- Identify a sequence of events in a story
- Recall content of stories read to them
- Distinguish differences between fiction and non-fiction
Provides a framework for students to analyze mass media
Kindergartners will:
- Begin to develop an understanding of mass media
- Understand that media requires thoughtful evaluation
- Analyze the effects of media on an individual
- Discuss the effects of cartoon violence on the individual
Promotes social responsibility and an ethical understanding of the use and
generation of ideas
Kindergartners will:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of ownership of ideas and information
- Demonstrate awareness for giving credit for information
Advances communication skills through oral, written, visual, and multimedia
applications
Kindergartners will:
- Show and understanding of basic negotiation and persuasion skills by solving
a hypothetical conflict
- Make an oral presentations on a favorite book, story or poem
- Make a story board
- Produce an audio recording of a favorite book, story or poem
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