PreK

• Story times

• Listening skills

• Puppets

• Felt story boards

• Nursery Rhymes

Kindergarten

• Literature appreciation

• Book Care

• How to choose a book

• Listening skills

• Authors/Illustrators

• Book location skills in E section

• Finding books by author (call# - E)

• Start checkout in second semester

First Grade

• Literature appreciation

• Continuation of skills, review book care

• Difference between fiction and nonfiction (information books)

• Checkout in E section until second semester

• Book location skills in E and F sections

• Specific authors and illustrators

Second Grade

• Literature appreciation

• Review K and First grade skills

• Folk and Fairy tale unit

• ABC order

• Parts of a book (cover, spine, title page, call #, text)

• Book location skills in E and F sections

Third Grade

• Literature appreciation

• Use of encyclopedias (print and computer)

• Dictionaries/glossaries

• Book location skills E, F, and NF sections

• Map and globe awareness

• Caldecott books-Illustrators and types of illustrations

Fourth Grade

• Literature appreciation

• American Tall Tales unit

• 10 Dewey Divisions

• Book location skills (all areas)

• OPAC and cataloging information

• Use of print and computer reference materials

• Beginning research skills - how to access information

• Review Encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases

• Introduce almanacs

• Newbery medal

• Keyboarding

Fifth Grade

• Literature appreciation

• Detailed Dewey use by 10s

• Continued use of Reference materials

• Biography unit

• OPAC and cataloging information

• Book location skills (all areas)

• Keyboarding

Sixth Grade

• Literature appreciation

• Research Skills (Using The Big 6)

• OPAC and cataloging information

• Bibliography

• Continued use of reference sources

• Internet search introduction

• Mystery

• Detailed Dewey Decimal System

• Book location skills

• Keyboarding