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Download full textBailey, Barbara M. – 1974
This booklet is the eighth in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objectives of this unit are for the student to be able to (1) list ten format sections of a book (e.g., table of contents, glossary, bibliography), (2)…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Books, Career Exploration, Instructional Materials
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1986
The editors of School Library Media Activities Monthly discuss the debate between advocates of a strong instructional development or design role for library media specialists and advocates of strong library media skills programs. They suggest that well-planned and interesting lessons can incorporate both library media and classroom objectives. (EM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Learning Resources Centers
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – School Library Media Quarterly, 1985
Identifies six successive stages in model of the library research process developed from the findings of study of high school seniors using library for two assigned research papers: initiating research assignment, selecting topic, exploring information, forming focus, collecting information, preparing to present. Assessment of the research process…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Metcalf, Mary Jane – School Library Journal, 1979
Describes visual aids that can be used to help hearing impaired children participate in library story hours as well as programs for library instruction and encouraging reading. Factors to be considered in selecting appropriate library materials for this group are discussed, and book selection aids and information sources are indicated. (CMV)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children, Librarians
Thompson, Verna; And Others – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1994
Provides three activities that help develop library skills for elementary school students. One describes a riddle card game that reviews research book terms; one explains a book report activity; and one focuses on cooperative problem-solving activities to find titles by favorite authors. (LRW)
Descriptors: Authors, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Thompson, Verna – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1992
Explains how school library media specialists can create and use crostic puzzles to help sixth graders learn references skills. Teaching basic reference skills and research skills is discussed with emphasis on index skills, and three sample crostic puzzles (with answers) are provided. (LRW)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Learning Resources Centers
Montgomery, Paula Kay – School Library Media Quarterly, 1991
Describes a study of female elementary school library media specialists that investigated the effects of field dependence/independence on cooperation between library media specialists and classroom teachers. Perceived levels of cooperation in planning and teaching library media skills are discussed, and implications are suggested for both…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Field Dependence Independence, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1993
Describes how to combine psychomotor skills with memory and other cognitive learning skills to reinforce skills related to the location of information using the Dewey Decimal system. Movements and music for use with six topics are suggested. Exercises are most appropriate for use with kindergarten through second-grade students. (KRN)
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Dewey Decimal Classification, Learning Activities, Learning Resources Centers
Brodie, Carolyn S. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1993
Offers suggestions for library activities based on a football theme. Six examples of activity forms are provided, and addresses of football organizations are given. Eighty-two books on football suitable for grades 4-8 are listed, including fiction and nonfiction, bibliographies, reference, picture books, poetry/riddles, audiovisual materials, and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Football
Jansen, Barbara – Big6 Newsletter, 1998
Describes how to use storytelling in elementary education to teach the Big6 research process. Strategies for implementation are presented, including modifying a story, writing a story based on the curriculum connection, and using puppets. (LRW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction
Peer reviewedEverhart, Nancy – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Through use of two prepared surveys, Power Reader and Power Learner (from the Information Power Action Research Project by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Research and Statistics Committee), high school students can track their library skill growth during a research project and report and reflect on their reading…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Information Skills, Library Skills, Library Surveys
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1987
Developed as a direct response to requests from librarians and principals for a scope and sequence guide for library/information skills for students in grades prekindergarten through 12, this document is designed to help librarians and teachers not only to present and document mastery of the mandated essential library/information skills, but also…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Information Seeking, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – 1984
An extension of a doctoral dissertation that studied a group of high school seniors while they used the library for two assigned research papers, this paper presents a process approach to library skills instruction for high school students. The doctoral study traced the research process used by the students through a number of devices including…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, High School Seniors, Library Instruction, Library Research
GAVER, MARY V. – 1960
THE CHARACTERISTIC ABILITIES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN READING AND OTHER RELATED SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO HAD ACCESS TO CENTRALIZED LIBRARY SERVICES WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE WHO DID NOT. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM SIX SCHOOLS WITH VARYING SCHOOL LIBRARY PROVISIONS WHICH INCLUDED EXAMPLES OF--(1) A CENTRALIZED SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Library Services, Library Skills
Bailey, Barbara M. – 1974
This booklet is the first in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objective of this unit is to be able to perform the tasks required of library assistants under the supervision of the school librarian. Students study the…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Career Exploration, Instructional Materials, Junior High Schools
