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Garden City School Library: The ABCs of Es

Essential Question

How does the E section work?

Lesson 1 - E Call Numbers

  • Discussion: Remind the kids that fiction books only have letters in their call numbers. But where do the letters come from? Go over examples and see if anyone can figure it out. Explain that they use the first letter of the author's last name and are put on the shelf alphabetically. 
     
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  • Activity: Give each student an E book to put away and observe where they put it. 

Standards Addressed

AASLI.B.3 - Generating products that illustrate learning; III.A.2 - Developing new understandings through engagement in a learning group; III.D.1 - Actively contributing to group discussions; IV.B.4 - Organizing information by priority, topic, or other systematic scheme; V.A.1 - Reading widely and deeply in multiple formats and write and create for a variety of purposes. 

RI Core: RL.1.7 - Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events; SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media; 1.MD.C.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

Rhode Island Cross-Curricular Proficiencies: Communication - Select and analyze relevant information; Use a method of communication (e.g., written, oral, visual, graphic, audio, and/or interactive) to present ideas; Problem Solving and Critical Thinking - Identify relevant information/data from resources and analyze patterns and trends to identify relationships.

Rhode Island School Library Curriculum Priority Skills: 1.1 - Recognizes the systematic way the library organizes fiction and picture books; With help, sorts and categorizes “like” and “different” objects; Verbally and physically demonstrates simple organizational skills such as sorting and categorizing objects and information; Sorts books by fiction vs. nonfiction; Uses writing process, emergent writing, and drawing to develop expression of new understandings; 3.2 - Participates in collaborative conversations with peers and adults to share ideas and information