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Fli Families: Library Lesson

	Lesson Outline Objective Materials Before and after doing this lesson, you will want to be sure that every adult and child has a library card, which will make the purpose of this lesson transparent: use library resources. 1.        Warm-up Write the word book on the board and elicit as many associated words as possible, such as title, author, pages, etc. Show students a book of fiction, non-fiction, and a reference book and elicit the differences: true stories, not true, etc. Students work in groups and make a list of all the resources that can be found in the library: books, CDs, magazines, computers, children’s books, etc.  Ask students if they know where these things are found in this library. Tell them you are about to take them on a tour so they will know where these materials are located. 3. Scavenger Hunt Bring students back to their tables and, looking at examples of a book of fiction, non-fiction, and reference, show them the CALL numbers and explain how they are shelved using either the author’s last name or the Dewey Decimal System. Ask them a few questions, such as: What numbers would you look at to find a book about biology? And have them refer to the Dewey Decimal list for the answers. Using the large pile of books you placed on their tables, group students and ask them to sort the books into 3 piles: fiction, non-fiction and reference. Tell students they are going on a treasure hunt around the library. Divide students into groups of 3-4. Their job is to find 1 book of fiction, 1 of non-fiction, and one reference book and bring them to the table. Once students are back at their tables with the books, give them a handout and ask them to write the title of the book, the author and the call number/name in the spaces provided Next give each group a list of 3 library policy questions and tell them they need to ask the librarian to get the answers to the questions. Some of the answers can probably also be found on a library information sheet, so this could be done as a reading exercise. Ask the students to write down the answers to the questions on their papers as well. Once each group has completed both tasks (sorting the books and getting the answers to their questions) ask each group to visit the other groups and share the books they found and the answers to their questions. Finally, give each student a list of all the questions and elicit the answers. Write them on the board and let the students copy them if they haven’t already written down the answers from the other groups.                 You will assess prior knowledge and introduce topic.   Students will identify resources found in most libraries   Students will locate resources found in their neighborhood library.            Student will list identifying information of each book.   Students will prepare questions for the librarian and then ask their questions and write down the answers. Students will produce a list of library policies by answering all the questions given to each group.       Put a mix of fiction, non-fiction, and reference books on the students’ tables.                              Handout to list book information.   Sheets of paper for each group that contain 3 questions for the librarian. Each group should have different questions.   A list of all the questions for each student