Library - 3rd Grade
The mission of the library program is to promote literacy, foster a love of reading, support the school’s curriculum, and create a place where inquisitive young minds feel welcome to explore. Third graders have a weekly library class, which includes storytelling, read-aloud, learning activities, and time to choose and borrow books.
Units of Study
- Review and expand on K-2 skills
- Independently select materials using online library catalog
- Independently locate materials in the library
- Introduce structure of dictionary entry
- Choose appropriate type of reference work to answer a question (encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, online database)
- Review differences between online news sources and printed newspapers
- Use table of contents, index, and guide words to answer a question
- Introduce difference between primary and secondary sources
- Introduce concepts of note-taking and citing sources
- Biographies with timelines, photographs, primary sources
- Visual literacy (infer information from photographs)
Approaches to Learning
- Storytelling
- Read-Aloud
- Listening skills
- Critical thinking
- Text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections
- Exposure to diverse experiences and perspectives through literature
- Exposure to different genres of literature
- Hands-on exploration of the library
- Hands-on learning activities
- Practice using technology to access online resources
- Sharing knowledge / reporting back to group
- Encourage reading aloud to one another
- Author visits