Bibliography is working pretty well. Good for kids to know what it is and practice doing it and also a good kickstart for talking about library organization - one of the first components of information literacy... knowing that information/books/data is organized.
Next step - more on fiction organization for younger kids, Dewey Decimal for older (after brief review of fiction).
Interesting that this is actually more complicated in elementary school than for older kids (especially for 3rd graders) because fiction comes in red, blue, green, yellow and "regular" flavors. Just when you're teaching them that the library is organized, they have to figure out what fiction section to put something in and why they label is different for "regular" fiction than Easy Fiction. Same problem with Easy Non-Fiction.
Found a good book in reference class this weekend from the American Library Association with a pathway to Information Literacy for K-6th grade, complete with blackline masters and short lessons. Should be useful for getting kids moving down the road to understanding how to find and use information.
Note for next year: Given the emphasis on Halloween costumes being book related, it would have been good to do a lesson early in October to help kids figure out what character they could create a costume for and what it would look like. Good tie-in to characterization for both Library Skills and LA skills.
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