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February/March
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March/April
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Content
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Library
Skills
Browser
Location Identification
(3rd Grade)
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Library
Skills:
Book identification
Book Part Identification
(3rd Grade)
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Skills
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- Students will be
able to locate a book using the browser (electronic card catalog).
- Students will be
able to use the keyword, author and title search on the browser.
- Students will be
able to locate a call number on the browser screen.
- Students will be
able to locate books on the shelf by using the call number using the browser.
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- Students will be
able to identify fiction and non fiction, as well as, reference materials
- Students will be
able to identify the location of the material in a library by looking at
the call number on the books
- Students will then
be able to use a book to gain information about: author, title, copyright,
and publisher, place of publication.
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Assessments
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Current
assessment in the classroom Unit 3 Reading test: three location multiple-choice
questions.
No assessment in the library.
Assessment Gap:
The students are required based on the standard to be taught how to look
up a book on the electronic card catalog using different searches.
Then they are supposed to go to the shelves and find the books. While
I have shown the students the skills they are not assessed on the material
and only the child who really want to find a book on their own use the skills
that they have been taught. Not having an assessment and know that
they are not graded on the material keeps many students from transferring
the skills into life. They cannot even transfer the knowledge to the
three to five question test in their classroom. Students need to know
that they will be assessed on the material in order to take and interest in
skills. Sadly, many of the children are not intrinsically motivated
to learn the skills on their own. I would like to develop a performance
assessment that would allow the students to demonstrate the skills that they
have learned over the course of the year in locating the books on the browser
and on the shelf.
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Current
assessment in the classroom Unit 3 Reading Test: 1 multiple choice question
about fiction and non -fiction
No assessment in library
Assessment Gap:
Spending an entire year, in many cases, three years (if the students are
at the school from first grade) working with the students identifying non-fiction
and fiction material, authors, titles should be second nature to the students.
This, however, does not show on the third grade assessment, The assessment
asks one multiple-choice question about fiction and non-fiction material.
That is not an appropriate amount of samples to give a good idea of the student’s
knowledge of the material. I would like to create an assessment that
give the students hands on opportunity to explore the books and have them
group the books by fiction and non-fiction. I would like to see an assessment
where the students need to use the material to locate author, title, publisher,
and copyright. Maybe a small project where the students must locate
fiction and non-fiction material about a subject and within the project write
up a very simple bibliography. Of course, the students would be assessed
on individual area with in the large assessment. For example, the
overall structure of the bibliography would not be graded, because the students
have not officially learned the structure, but all of the necessary information
from the standard would have to be in place.
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Standard
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1,6
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1
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