library orientation for junior high school students

Lessons for teaching library media skills incorporating junior high and middle school subjects.

Contains nineteen lessons and forty-five worksheets for teaching junior high school students library skills, including how to use card and computer catalogs, reference texts, and a vertical file.

Lessons for teaching library media skills incorporating junior high and middle school subjects.

Offers a step-by-step method for integrating library resources and skills into the classroom curriculum; provides a research base for the program; and gives detailed suggestions for implementing the program at each grade level.

Reviews the history of cooperation and collaboration in school libraries since the 1990s, discussing the benefits of collaboration between library media specialists and teachers at the elementary level; and features a common template for use in planning collaborative units, as well as a selection of units contributed by teams across the United States.

Explains the collaboration process between library media specialists and educators and presents effective strategies and reproducible lessons that will help students become more involved in the library learning process.

Reviews the history of cooperation and collaboration in school libraries since the 1990s, discussing the benefits of collaboration between library media specialists and teachers at the junior and high school level; and features a common template for use in planning collaborative units, as well as a selection of units contributed by teams across the U.S.