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Leading the Common Core Initiative

A Guide for K–5 School Librarians

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Leading the Common Core Initiative

A Guide for K–5 School Librarians

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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.

Table of 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

Product details

Published Nov 25 2014
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781610694919
Imprint Libraries Unlimited
Dimensions 11 x 8 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Carl A. Harvey II

Carl A. Harvey II is an instructor of school libra…

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