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Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills! This book documents a continuous library center program with a series of mini-lessons that cover topics from bears, books, and dinosaurs to natural resources, rockets, and Victorian holiday traditions. Projects use different types of media (e.g., books, tapes, CD-ROMs, the Internet), giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources-to find books; use the library catalog, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and CD-ROMs; alphabetize; perform author research, build a bibliography, create a book cover and poster; role play; conduct a video interview; and so on. For each center, the author provides reproducible instruction cards, a list of materials, and suggestions for implementation. Various assessment tools are recommended-observation checklists, coaching and discussion, presentations, celebrations, and formal checklists to be

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Author:   Judith Anne Sykes
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Libraries Unlimited Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 28.00cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9781563085079

ISBN 10:   1563085070
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 August 1997
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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?For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.?-Colorado Libraries

For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community. -Colorado Libraries Suitable for a wide range of students. -Library Lane Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers. -Library Talk ?Suitable for a wide range of students.??Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?-Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?- Library Lane ?Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers.?-Library Talk ?For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.?-Colorado Libraries

For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community. -Colorado Libraries Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers. -Library Talk Suitable for a wide range of students. -Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.??Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?-Library Lane ?Suitable for a wide range of students.?- Library Lane ?For teachers and librarians who are looking for projects to implement within their curriculum. It is also a nice resource for educators to help in planning integration of curriculum throughout the school community.?-Colorado Libraries ?Detailed instructions for creating resource-based library centers.?-Library Talk

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JUDITH SYKES, former teacher-librarian, is principal of an elementary school in Calgary, Canada.

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