Library & Reading Skills

 

Students are learning …

• Book selection: choosing an appropriate piece of literature

• Determining what books are right for each student

• How to find books using the Dewey Decimal System

• How to use the electronic catalog to find books in our library

• How to conduct research reports using online databases & resources

• Prediction, Inference and Foreshadowing

• How to determine whether a selection is literary or informative

• Comparing and contrasting information using graphic organizers

• How to find credible information using books, databases & websites

• ·Author’s Purpose: Entertain, Persuade, Inform

• Point of View and Perspective

• Reading for pleasure :)