library orientation for school children

Offers forty lessons with reproducible activity sheets to introduce library skills to kindergarten through sixth grade students, covering how to handle materials, alphabetizing, the parts of a book, using the vertical file, book reports, and more.

Presents fifteen thirty- to forty-five-minute library lessons for fourth through eighth graders based on books featuring magic, including "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and provides evaluation tips and extension activity ideas.

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes the things to see and do at the public library.

Presents forty seven educational games for children in grades K-6 about using the library, fiction, and themes related to coursework.

Explains the nine information literacy standards for student learning identified by the American Association of School Librarians, and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology; and provides guidelines library professionals can use to teach students these skills.

Presents more than one hundred library lesson plans, arranged by grade level from kindergarten through fifth grade, which are based on the AASL/AECT information literacy standards and cover various learning styles.