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Hazelynne Floyd, Librarian
IT'S FUN TO READ!
Visit the Pathfinder K-8 Library, browse the shelves, Chat with Hazelynne or surf the Internet.
Research and common sense have shown at least 20 minutes of reading a day is required for academic excellence. That’s 20 minutes of a child reading alone, 20 minutes of a family reading together, 20 minutes of bedtime reading, or 20 minutes of a brother reading to a sister. Of course that 20 minutes is a minimum. By the time your student is in middle school silent reading should last at least three times that.
Please call me at 252-9747 or stop by the Library.
Students in grades 2-8 will be bringing library books home from school on weekly library days. Students in grades K-1 will be bringing books home only after the semester break in February. Please take some time to find a nice place for Pathfinder library books to live while they are visiting you at home.
Young Reader’s Choice books are voted on by students and are eligible for an award. The YRCA http://www.pnla.org/yrca/ was originally started in 1940 by a Seattle bookseller who was looking for ways to encourage young readers. The hope was, and still is, that if school and public libraries work together to promote reading for pleasure, then the life-long love of reading and learning will be instilled in youth.
Each year books are nominated by students and librarians. Once these books have been nominated students have until March to read at least two of the books and then vote for their favorite. Each school that participates has a winner and that winner is sent on to the national competition. Who ever has the most votes wins and is chosen as the Young Reader’s Choice winner.
Pathfinder School Library
Syllabus
“The teaching and learning of library and information skills is most
effective when using content related to what students are currently studying
in their classroom. The
students learn the specific searching skills necessary to find and use
information.” (Standards for
Library and Information Skills)
Standards for Library and Information Skills were used when creating this
syllabus. In addition to
scheduled rotation times, students will also be working with the librarian
on classroom/expedition projects and assignments.
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Kindergarten |
1st
Grade
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2nd/3rd
Grade
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4th/5th
Grade
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Fall Trimester
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Library
behavior
Care of books
Library arrangement
Find a book
Check out and return books
from classroom
Lit appreciation (read,
listen, view)
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Library
behavior
Care of books
Library arrangement (Intro
Dewey Decimals – ABC)
Find a book
Check out and return books
from home
Lit appreciation (read,
listen, view)
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Library
behavior
Find a book using online
catalogue
Check out and return books
from home
Lit appreciation (read,
listen, view)
Intro encyclopedia
Intro note taking
Parts of a book
(index, table of contents, glossary)
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Library
behavior
Find a book using online
catalogue
Check out and return books
from home
Lit appreciation (read,
listen, view)
Intro magazines/newspapers
Note taking
Organizational activities
Outlining
Evaluating sources
Bibliographies
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Winter Trimester
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Parts
of a book
Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Find
a book
Check
out and return books from home
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Find
a book
Check
out and return books from home
Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Continue
basic Dewey Decimals
Fiction
vs. Nonfiction
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Find
a book using online catalogue
Check
out and return books from home
Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Continue
encyclopedia
Intro
maps/atlas/globe Intro to genres
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Find
a book using online catalogue
Check
out and return books from home
Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Continue
genres
Autobiography
Biography
Final
product
Evaluate
own final product
Web
skills
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Spring Trimester
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Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Find
a book
Check
out and return books from home
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Find
a book
Check
out and return books from home
Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Continue
basic Dewey Decimals
Fiction
vs. Nonfiction
Intro
online catalogue
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Find
a book using online catalogue
Check
out and return books from home
Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Continue
encyclopedia
Intro
dictionary and thesaurus
Intro
maps/globe/globe Intro to genres
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Find
a book using online catalogue
Check
out and return books from home
Lit
appreciation (read, listen, view)
Maintain
“study skills” activities
Evaluate
web sites
Web
search strategies
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Middle School 6th
Grade
1st Session
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Middle School 7th
Grade
2nd Session
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Middle School 8th
Grade
3rd Session
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Skills:
Assessment
Understand assignment
including end-product and criteria for evaluation
Timeline
Refine questions
Review parts of book
(index, table of contents, topic headings, etc.)
Review encyclopedia
Web evaluation
Resources
Internet search (search
engines, keywords, narrower terms)
Viewing, scanning,
skimming
Note taking
Cite sources (use of
quotations, bibliographies)
Paraphrasing
Plagiarism issues
Evaluating a final project
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Review
Study Skills (see 6th grade)
Research Project:
Library will help support
an assigned culture project from Language Arts teachers
WASL
Prep
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Review
Study Skills (see 6th grade)
Research Project:
Each
8th grade students will self select a subject to research
and create and end project. This
is an independent project.
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