Library Lessons for Grades 7-9 - Hardcover

Druce, Arden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810831007 ISBN 13: 9780810831001

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1996

Synopsis

Brimming with detailed lesson plans and reproducible worksheets that help teach library skills, this is the ideal resource for busy librarians. The library skills section covers library orientation, parts of a book, fiction and nonfiction, biography and autobiography, Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal classification, the card and computer catalogs, magazines, newspapers, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, and the vertical file. The reference book section covers lessons on basic reference sources and a Reference Book Roundup and Test. There are ready-to-present reviews of twelve reference books: The Young Reader's Companion; Books in Print; World Almanac of the USA; Lands and Peoples; World Almanac Infopedia; Guinness Book of Records; Great Athletes; Sports Almanac; Anniversaries and Holidays; Famous First Facts; Information Please Almanac; and abridged, unabridged, foreign language, and rhyming dictionaries.

About this title

About the Author:

Arden Druce, now retired, has been a library media specialist in elementary, junior, and senior high schools. She is the author of Complete Library Skills Activities Program and Chalk Talk Stories (Scarecrow, 1993).

Review:

This collection of lesson plans covers everything a librarian could hope a library patron entering high school would know about reference sources in print. (Voya)

Teachers and librarians seeking a well-developed sourcebook for teaching traditional library skills will find in Library Lessons for Grades 7-9 well-prepared lessons that include reproducible handouts. (Lisca)

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0810831007
• ISBN 13: 9780810831001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356