Full Description
Defining both the Common Core Standards and the school librarian's role in their implementation, this book offers ready-to-use lesson plans and other tools for grades K-5 and identifies opportunities for collaborative teaching.
As elementary schools in nearly all 50 states are faced with meeting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), school librarians need to understand the challenges and have lesson plans ready to help. This resource introduces the CCSS in English and mathematics to K-5 librarians and aides, helping them to understand the concepts, analyzing the impact on the school library, and providing lesson plans, resources, and other tools for implementation in integrated instruction with other curricula and collaborative teaching with other elementary teachers.
Based upon the authors' own experiences in adopting the CCSS in their school, the included exemplar lesson plans and ideas are designed to support school librarians as they begin to collaborate with teachers in using the Common Core Standards in their daily classroom instruction. The book also discusses the opportunities for advocacy that result from the librarian's instrumental role in implementing the CCSS, both as a staff developer and a collaborative partner teacher.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: What are the Common Core Standards?
Chapter 2: What are the Connections with School Library Standards?
Chapter 3: How will the Common Core Impact the Administration of a School Library?
Chapter 4: How will the Common Core Impact Instruction In/Out of the School Library?
Chapter 5: Common Core, Professional Development, and Advocacy
Chapter 6: Sample Lesson Plans - Kindergarten
Farm Animals
Frogs
MyPlate / Nutrition
Shapes (Math)
Snowflakes
Chapter 7: Sample Lesson Plans--1st Grade
Famous Americans
Insects
Long Ago and Today
Student Book Award (Math)
Mem Fox Author Study
Chapter 8: Sample Lesson Plans--2nd Grade
Animals Follow a Student Home
April Pulley Sayre Author Study
Owen and Mzee
Poetry
Telling Time
Chapter 9: Sample Lesson Plans--3rd Grade
Biomes
Book Review
Fairy Tales
Landmarks
Presidents
Chapter 10: Sample Lesson Plans--4th Grade
Good Beginnings
Force / Motion
Parts of a Book
Scientists
Wander Indiana
Chapter 11: Sample Lesson Plans--5th Grade
State Economic Project
Biographies
Explorers
Jamestown
September 11th
Appendix A: Children's Literature Bibliography
Appendix B: Blank Budget Justification Sheet
Appendix C: Student/Staff Survey Samples
Appendix D: Common Core Bibliography
Appendix E: Research Journal
Appendix F: Technology Tools
Index
