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- Dear Peter Rabbit
- Students will identify formal language and sentence structures in friendly letters. They will use similar formal language and style to create friendly letters to other story book characters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Caroline Annas, Elizabeth Gibson, and Stephanie Johnson.
- Adding support and detail without getting arrested!
- This lesson plan is designed to teach students the concept of using facts to support ideas and to interpret (elaborate on) those facts in order to create a synthesized paragraph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Bonnie Mcmurray and Julie Joslin.
- Beginning biography research
- Encyclopedia research skills will be taught using biographies of famous people. This is one lesson in a collaborative unit taught by both the classroom teacher and the library media coordinator.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Joan Milliken.
- The case of the disappearing pitcher plants
- This lesson addresses the cause and effect relationship between human interaction and a North Carolina endangered plant species. A role-playing scenario allows students to view the situation from a variety of positions and to collectively arrive at a solution to the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Science)
- By Eddie Hamblin.
- Features of print
- In this lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of gathering information from chapter headings, bold type and other organizational features of print (such as tables of contents) in non-fiction texts in print and online.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Gail Goodling, Susan Lovett, and Sue Versenyi.
- The Frog Prince: Compare and contrast
- This lesson can be used with numerous pieces of literature, films, or sound material to develop viewing and listening skills and the students' ability to compare and contrast. One of the richest sources is in the area of fairy tales and folktales. This an especially good source if you can find a modernized version in recorded form to contrast with the more traditional written form. I have used the "Frog Prince" because of this factor and because it was part of the 4th grade language arts reading unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Barbara Waters.
- Integrating the internet into the curriculum: Jan Brett author study
- Jan Brett's books will be used to integrate technology into different areas of the curriculum. The seven activities will each take about 30 minutes depending on the class. The highlight of the author study will be the design of a class multimedia presentation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Barb Thorson.
- Learning about Ezra Jack Keats
- Students will learn about Ezra Jack Keats using a variety of resources in the media center.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Brittany Basinger, Jenni Conine, and Vickie Mcmillan.
- Learning language strategies through repeated readings of storybooks
- This lesson will guide and teach students how to process and produce language at higher levels through meaningful, redundant, contextually appropriate, and intrinsically rewarding center-based activities related to a storybook theme.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Elizabeth Winborne.
- Literature biography project
- Students will learn to develop the various processes used in researching and writing a biographical research paper, including brainstorming, note taking, outlining, creating a bibliography, and writing the final draft.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Sandra Dail.
- Making a video critique of an information source
- After finishing their social issues research paper for their English class (or any other type of research paper), students will write and present orally a critique of one information source used in their research papers. Students will work in pairs to videotape each other, and they must also design appropriate backdrops for their oral presentations. Students will watch and evaluate all critiques.
This interdisciplinary assignment combines information skills and language arts skills, and requires collaboration between the media specialist and the English teacher. - Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Bonnie Snyder.
- My favorite women: My Great Aunt Arizona
- These three (or four) 45-minute lessons will introduce kindergarteners and first graders to Women's History Month. The students listen to the story of author Gloria Houston's great-aunt, Arizona Houston Hughes. During and following the listening and viewing experiences, the students will discuss their experiences with women in their own history who are helping them become good citizens and grow up well.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Floanna Long.
- Reading guides
- Groups will develop a Reading Guide for each non-fiction resource book for units in science, social studies, and other curriculum areas. Students will identify useful features each book and where the important information will be found. Reviewing non-fiction features of print resources will familiarize the class with material on reserve for the unit. Overviewing and identifying text features will help students determine how to approach the various formats of text relevant to the topic.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Elizabeth Hubbe.
- Resource recon
- Teams of students will search for the answers to questions using various information resources. The questions will be in categories such as: biography, current events, historical events, geography, language. Besides competing for the fastest answer, the students will learn (1) how to use the resource effectively and (2) which resource is best for finding different types of information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Keith Dudley.
- Search for synonyms: A thesaurus lesson
- Students will expand their vocabulary and learn the advantages of using a thesaurus. Students will edit and enrich personal writing samples using both print and online thesauri.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Erin Bradfeldt and Joan Milliken.
- Snails: Fact and fiction
- This lesson on snails integrates Science, Language Arts, Technology and Math. Teacher will share a fictitious snail story with students. Students will complete a K-W-L chart on snails with the help of the internet. As a related activity, students will take a poll on snail preferences and graph it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Mathematics)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- Sticky-note discussions
- Sticky-notes discussions are fun, add variety to reading, and allow students to respond to the written text immediately. They are easy to implement in all content areas. Sticky-note discussions are effective when used individually, in a small or large group, or a combination of settings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–8 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Rector.
- Story shackles: Linking students to written text
- Chain your students to reading a given text critically! Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Rector.
- Strategy lesson: KWL
- This lesson activates students' prior knowledge about famous North Carolinians and helps them organize thoughts and questions before they read biographies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Alisa McAlister, Sherry French, and Harnetha Hudgins.
- We read every day!
- Through observation outside of the classroom, students will gather and bring to class five items that exhibit different sources of information comprised of more complex vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
