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Media Services Curriculum Guide
 * __KINDERGARTEN __**

Info: Assist students at the beginning of the year by pre-selecting appropriate titles and placing them on the tables for checkout.
 * GOAL 1: ** **Select books and materials appropriate for age and interests.**

Info: Use posters emphasizing book care, and show torn or damaged books as examples of improper care of books.
 * GOAL 2: Recognize proper book care. **

Info: Include author, illustrator, title, cover, spine.
 * GOAL 3: Introduce parts of a book **.

Info: Compare shelf arrangement to house addresses. Each book  “lives” at a certain spot on the shelf. (If your students don’t  check out from the shelves until first grade, then leave this goal  until then.)
 * GOAL 4: Introduce the importance of shelf arrangement in the **
 *  Media Center. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Use Math Workshop or other simple programs.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 5: Use appropriate software with supervision. **


 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24px;">FIRST GRADE __**

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Include fiction, nonfiction, biography, call number, dedication <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> page and title page. Review author, illustrator, title, cover and <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> spine.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 1: Recognize common library vocabulary. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: See list of authors at end of guide.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 2: Identify favorite authors and characters, and make students aware that some titles win awards (such as the Caldecott) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> for excellence in illustration and story. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Activities could include coloring sheets to identify the parts, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">playing memory-type games, or visiting computer websites <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">which identify computer parts. Students could sing the <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">computer parts song (attached).
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 3: Identify the basic parts of a computer; learn basic computer vocabulary. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Use Math Workshop, Kid Works, Kid Pix and other programs to develop mouse control and other computer skills such as painting/drawing, and simple word processing. May learn to find the letters on the keyboard to type their own name.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 4: Use appropriate software with assistance. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Use posters for visual examples, and teach proper handling of CD’s by example.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 5: Introduce and apply basic rules for computer use and care. **


 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24px;">SECOND GRADE __**

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Use sources such as beginning encyclopedias and simple nonfiction books to locate information. Examples include <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> Golden Book Encyclopedia CD-ROM, fact books on animals, or fact books on countries of the world to support the social studies curriculum.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 1: Use print and nonprint materials for beginning research. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Include fairy tales, mysteries, and realistic fiction. Encourage independent reading by booktalking controlled vocabulary books by authors such as Cynthia Rylant, Edward Marshall, James Howe, Jane Yolen, Betsy Byars, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 2: Recognize different types of literature, and encourage independent reading. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: One activity could be to give pairs of students slips with an <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> Easy Fiction call number and let them locate a book which <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> matches that call number. For example, E/LOB. Or, they <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> could be given an actual book and try to find where it belongs <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> on the shelf.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 3: Find the shelf location of Easy Fiction with assistance. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Note watercolor, clay, collage, pen and ink, markers and other types of illustrations. Check verso of title page for information on medium used for illustrations. Also check author/illustrator websites, and check the unit for author/illustrator videos.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 4: Compare and contrast different types of illustrations in picture books. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: A variety of Caldecotts could be read and students could select their own favorite from among Caldecott winners. Examples of age-appropriate Coretta Scott King award winning books are __Mirandy and Brother Wind__, and __Patchwork Quilt__.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 5: Introduce award-winning books such as Caldecott and Coretta Scott King award books. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Introduce function of backspace, delete, spacebar, enter and shift in second grade appropriate programs such as Kid Pix, Kid Works, and Math Workshop. Students should be able to type their own name.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 6: Begin to learn the function of special keyboard keys. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Students should be able to handle CD’s properly, and load and exit most programs they are using.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 7: Apply rules for computer use and care, and use software with greater independence. **


 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24px;">THIRD GRADE __**

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Teach students the five finger rule (or rule of thumb). When reading a page in a book, hold up a finger for every word not known. If 5 fingers are held up, the book is probably too difficult. Booktalk transitional fiction books to encourage “jump” from easier books (such as Henry and Mudge) to longer Junie B. Jones series, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 1: Encourage selection of appropriate materials for independent reading. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Teach students that the card catalog is used to search for books by author, title and key word and/or subject. Could practice finding the books on the shelves which they have located in the card catalog.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 2: Introduce the electronic card catalog. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Emphasis should be on folklore (300’s), poetry (800’s) and biography (921’s).
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 3: Introduce Dewey Decimal system of classification **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Introduce students to materials such as World Book online and in book form, beginning almanacs, and Internet sources of information.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 4: Select and use both print and nonprint materials to find information. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Briefly introduce home row keys, hand placement, and appropriate posture in keyboarding.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 5: Introduce acceptable hand placement for the computer keyboard. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Teach the difference between the C (hard drive), H (network drive) and S (shared drive) on the computer.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 6: Introduce saving, retrieving and printing work on the computer. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Begin use of word processing program such as Microsoft Word. Teach fonts, centering, adding clip art. Minimize, maximize, and close programs using the windows icons in the top right corner.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 7: Learn basics of word processing program and how to navigate Windows. **


 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24px;">FOURTH GRADE __**

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Booktalk award-winning and other books by reading a chapter or passage to pique interest. Media Specialists may create bulletin boards and locate Internet sites about the authors of fourth-grade appropriate books to share with students. Student project could include researching a favorite or award-winning author.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 1: Develop an awareness of award-winning books such as Newbery and Coretta Scott King award winners, and continue to encourage book selection for pleasure reading. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Review that the card catalog is used to search for books by author, title, key word and/or subject. Practice finding books in the card catalog and locating them on the shelves. Understand the parts of the catalog card such as: call number, number of pages, copyright date, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 2: Learn to use the electronic card catalog independently **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Promote interest of books in the categories of art and recreation, science and U.S. geography and history.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 3: Recognize that nonfiction books are divided into categories by subject, with emphasis on the Dewey Decimal categories of 500, 600,700 and 900. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Locate a fiction, nonfiction and reference source on the same topic. For example, find a story about horses, a fact book about horses, and a reference article (either print or nonprint) about horses. Develop a list of broad and narrow topics for research. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;"> Use reference sources such as an atlas, dictionary, thesaurus almanac and encyclopedia to locate information.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 4: Become a more independent library user and begin evaluating materials for research (print versus non-print). **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Learn that there are many ways to search for information on the Internet. Understand the difference between a directory, which has human selected websites, and a search engine, which has computer selected websites.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 5: Introduce search engines and directories. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Use Kid Pix, PowerPoint and/or Hyperstudio for multi-media presentations. Computer accessories could include digital camera and scanner.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 6: Use reference, word processing and multi-media presentation programs and appropriate computer accessories to aid in presentations. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Use the C, H and/or S drives.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 7: Learn to save and retrieve work. **


 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24px;">FIFTH GRADE __**

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Place an emphasis on nonfiction books in the areas of U. S. history, government, and science.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 1: Recognize that nonfiction books are divided into categories by subject with emphasis on Dewey Decimal categories of 300, 500, 600, and 900. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Continue to promote award winning books, including those nominated for the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader’s Award in Illinois.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 2: Promote continued interest in books for information and pleasure reading. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and independently save and retrieve work.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 3: Expand use of Microsoft Office programs. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: Make students aware of online safety. Encourage taking notes when researching on the Internet, then re-writing in own words.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 4: Understand computer ethics, including plagiarism. **

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Info: See Internet Gateway list on the Unit 5 website. Understand that Internet is not always the first or best source of information for a topic.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">GOAL 5: Use and evaluate print and electronic resources to locate information. Understand that different search engines have different purposes. **