Subject::  Information Literacy
Topic: Make Armijo community aware of the many and varied sources available in the library:
Reference Sources. 
Grade Level::  9--12.
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Information literacy skills,  or library skills, are integrated into each of the curriculum standards.  Therefore, within each framework, the aforementioned skills are included, i.e., Language Arts--Writing strategies amd  Research & Technology; or, History--Writing Strategies and Research & Technology, etc., etc.   For the purposes of this exercise,
`the Language Arts standards will be cited.
 

Grades Nine through Twelve
Information literacy (library skills): Reference
        Sources
All Subjects:  Utilization of Library Sources 

2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials)
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. The selections in Recom-mended Literature, Grades Nine Through Twelve (1990) illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. In addition, by grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their own, including a wide variety of classic and contempo-rary literature, magazines, newspapers, and online information. In grades nine and ten, students make substantial progress toward this goal.
Structural Features of Informational Materials
2.1 Analyze the structure and format of functional workplace documents, including the graphics and headers, and explain how authors use the features to achieve their purposes.  By grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their own, including a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers, and online information.  In grades nine and ten, students make substantial progress toward this goal.
2.2 Prepare a bibliography of reference materials for a report using a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents.
Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
2.3 Generate relevant questions about readings on issues that can be researched.
2.4 Synthesize the content from several sources or works by a single author dealing with a single issue; paraphrase the ideas and connect them to other sources and related topics to demonstrate comprehension. 

Within each grade level, the following standards are repeated. 

1.  The student regularly reads a wide variety of materials, including informational text and significant literature from a variety of cultures and genres, and studies some authors or topics in depth.

2.  The student develops the skills and strategies necessary to read and comprehend thoroughly literary and informational text.

4.  The students understands, analyzes, sunthesizes, and evaluates informational text and public and functional documents,  connecting text with prior knowledge and experience.

5.  The student writes effectively for a range of audiences and a variety of purposes, following the conventions ofstandard written language and using steps ofthe wiriting process as needed.

6.  The student produces both literary and informational text by completing authentic tasks characteristic of the real world.

7.  The student delivers both formal and informal presentations, demonstrating effective organizational stretegies and delivery techniques.

8.  The student listens to, views, and responds critically to a variety of multimedia communications and demonstrates a variety of organizational strategies and delivery techniques to convey meaning effectively.insert back to the top

Instructional Objectives

Introductory Activity

The subject of a informational paper on mythology is introducted by the teacher.  Since this is the first reearch paper that is completed in the ninth grade, the teacher states that the students need to know the materials avilable in the library.  This will be the second lesson conducted in the library--the first is a general orientation.  The teacher hands the student the iinformatiion card and the first thing the students have to do is fill in the call number.  The exercise can be handled as an individual exercise or a group activity. 
 

Enabling Activity(ies)

1.  The student proceeds to the library.
2.  Student brings library orientation map.
3.  Student brings information data packet of cards, "Did you know....?" to the library.
4.  The student retrieves the book, answers the questions
and returns the book to the library shelf.
5.  Proceed to next exercise.
Culminating Activity
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Introductory Activity
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