libraries and education

Contains 180 ready-to-use activities designed to help students in grades five through eight use the media center and learn how to access and use print, nonprint, and electronic library media materials.

An analysis of Colorado schools and the effects of library media programs.

Presents practical strategies for teaching information literacy skills. Includes plans for classroom instruction and special library programs.

Defines curriculum support services and identifies library curriculum objectives, and skills instruction.

Discusses planning, developing, and presenting humanities programs.

Guide to cooperative learning activities in the library media center includes a section about cooperative learning and ready to use activities.

Discusses reading and the role of the school library media specialist at the kindergarten through grade five levels.

Offers librarians practical strategies for promoting collaboration and student learning in kindergarten through grade five, with exciting, practical lessons for a wide range of subjects that can be completed in one class period.

Explains how library media programs have played a key role in curriculum renewal in three different schools in the Untied States.

Suggests ideas for using literature in K-5 classrooms.