Link to MDIRSS K-8 Libraries Research links:
https://mdihslibrary.libguides.com/k8libraries
K-4 Research
Library skills, a love of reading, information literacy and digital citizenship are taught and reinforced throughout the curriculum. The librarian uses each lesson from grades K-4 to introduce and reinforce these standards and build upon these skills as the student progresses into middle school.
Grades K-2
Library behavior expectations
How the Library is organized
Parts of a book
How to use the Library
Insightful reading
Introduction to Research: Plagiarism, selecting topics, locating information on and offline,
Continued Research skills: Reference materials, evaluating and citing sources.
Grades 3-4
Digital citizenship
Continued Research Skills: Summarizing, paraphrasing, and organizing thoughts and information, search strategies, assessing validity of sources
Selecting materials appropriate to student’s interests, capacity and reading level, freedom of information
Communicating ideas
Ethical, legal and social responsibility
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