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Take the pressure off your busy schedule with these standards-based library lessons! Quick and easy to implement, these proven 20-minute instructional lessons, organized by grade level, equip you with everything you need to effectively teach library and information literacy skills to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Based on AASL/AECT standards and McREL benchmarks, each lesson plan includes standards, learning objectives, teaching directions, reproducible worksheets and graphics, learning styles, teaching team, and related resources. Students will learn how to effectively employ print and electronic resources to find the information they need, and you will be thrilled with how effortlessly you can bring information and literary appreciation into every classroom and still have time for other library and teaching responsibilities! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Not what I expected.
With a title like "Lesson Plans for the Busy Librarian," this book seemed like a must have for me, a busy librarian. When I received the item I was very disappointed to find that none of the lessons were that unique or interesting. In addition to being the same old thing, the clip art is subpar, and the organization is very random. Let me just say this, I have owned the book for over a year and am yet to use a single lesson plan from it.

Save your money...
As a "busy librarian" the title drew the money from me in a hurry, but I was disappointed by the lack of depth- lots of coloring!Occasionally I use some of the reproducibles when I have a sub, however the quality of the graphics are poor.

Better books out there
I am an elementary school librarian. While this book has a few good lesson plans, I find the majority of them to be overly simplistic. Also, a lot of the graphics on the reproducibles are of very poor quality.

Time saver for teachers too!
Although directed to librarians, this book is also fantastic for elementary teachers.It's indexed to the Language Arts standards, learning styles and Multiple Intelligences. It contains patterns, instructions, hands-on activities and more, for literature-based multi-disciplinary units.A super resource! ... Read more

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The author designed this book, like Volume I of the set, to give elementary school librarians a quick, enjoyable way to coordinate with teachers to teach information literacy and literacy skills aligned with national standards. Each chapter consists of lesson plans for each grade level from K-5. In this second volume, as in the first, each chapter gives quick and easy, standard-based lessons with reproducible lesson sheets and simple directions. Each set of directions mentions teaching teams, objectives, learning modalities/Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, McCREL National Standards, AASL/AECT Standards, and detailed teaching resources/book titles. The volume contains all new lesson plans. Grades K-5.

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Don't waste your money
I was extremely disappointed by the lessons in this book. They are really nothing special at all and I don't think I found a single lesson in the book worth doing with my K-5 students. Two thumbs down.

Can't believe I bought this book!
Most of these lesson plans could be found elsewhere, for instance on state curriculum websites. The graphics are laughable. I wanted some new and different lesson plans, and these ideas are stale. Try "Funbrarian." Cheaper book, more FUN! ... Read more

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The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Each lesson contains bibliographic information plus setting, characters, plot, solution, and book summary. Activities for the media specialist to provide schema, prediction, fluency, and information literacy skill instruction is provided as well. Teacher activities included address phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and the comprehension strategies of recall, inference, and synthesis. Each book section also features a parent take-home page of extension/enrichment ideas.

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Pre-Planned Lesson Plans for the Beginning Readers
This book is a set of lesson plans that are tied to forth or so common books aimed at the beginning reader. For each book the author presents activities for the:
library media specialist: Schema, Discussion Areas, Discussion about the physical book, i.e. what's contained on the title page;
the teachers: Phonics, Comprehension, Recall, some writing activities which are the beginning of book reviews later in school;
finally a parents page where the teacher can send home a review of what they have done with some suggestions as to how the parents might help their children continue the study at home.

I have not checked all the books discussed in this one, but all the ones that I did were available at Amazon.com. This includes:

And I Mean It, Stanley
Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery
Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation
Biscuit Goes to School
Danny and the Dinosaur
Oliver
Scruffy.

In summary, this book is a professional look at using commonly available introductory books to get the maximum amount of benefit out of them. ... Read more

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Holt Leveled Library Fourth Course Teacher's Guide Preview (includes teacher's guide for package 10A of 10A-10D) (With an introduction to Holt Literature Circles by Harvey Daniels, Lesson plans coordinated to Themes and Skills in Elements of Literature, Student Edition) ... Read more

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The Teacher?s Right Hand is a resource guide for upper elementary and middle school language arts teachers.It was written by educator, Kimberly S. Gibbons to help teacherswork with the average learner. ... Read more

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Awesome Teacher Resource
The Teacher's Right Hand is an educator's dream.It really does have practical, ready to use activities.I refer to this resource several times a week, and my students thoroughly enjoy the teacher-created games.If you are a middle school educator, this book is a must have!

Excellent Resource For Teachers and Parents
I found this book to be an excellent resource for teachers and parents.This book has numerous activities that can be used either in the classroom or by parents at home.I found each of the activities to be very detailed, outlining the objectives, and needed materials. The book contains numerous reproducible transparencies and worksheets.

This book has helped me to organize my daily instruction and has saved me hours in planning time!!!I also use it at home with my own children.This is an exellent resource and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!! ... Read more

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"The following papers are published chiefly because they treat in a concrete and personal manner some of the principles which the writer has developed in two previously published books, _The Educative Process_ and _Classroom Management_, and in a forthcoming volume," ... Read more