Library Overview – December 2013
Grade Six
In Library the Grade Six children have covered several areas during their library sessions.
- The Grade six students have learnt about the parts of both fiction and nonfiction books.
- Within the library sessions the children have particularly explored parts of a nonfiction text in which they have looked at nonfiction texts in comparison to a fiction texts. The students have explored contents pages, index, glossaries and the types and purpose of pictures in a nonfiction text.
- The Grade six students have also shared several of type’s literature and have been encouraged to
respond to that literature in a variety of ways.
- In fourth term the grade 6 students have explored note taking strategies and then have used notes that they have taken to write a brief report.
Focus: Term Three –Responding to Literature
Term Four – Note taking & Report Writing
| Lumen Christi Library Skills Covered
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December
2013 |
| Is able to locate the Fiction and Non Fiction section of the Library | √ |
| Is able to follow correct borrowing procedures | √ |
| Has an understanding of the Dewey Decimal System | √ |
| Is able to locate Library Books using a variety of strategies | √ |
| Is able to identify key components of a fiction book | √ |
| Is able to identify key components of a non- fiction book | √ |
| Uses correct terminology when referring to parts of fiction and non-fiction books (i.e. title, author, illustrator, blurb, publisher etc) | √ |
| Knows the differences between picture books and chapter books | √ |
| Understands the difference between fiction and non-fiction books | √ |
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| Responds to literature (Linked Domain: Arts Creating and Making) | √ |
| Is able to make predictions and inferences about possible consequences of actions and events during reading (VELS English L4) | √ |
| Is able to demonstrate an understanding of features of different kinds of texts; for example, characterization and plot in narratives, or headings and visual information in informative texts
(VELS English L4) |
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| Is able to collect information for an investigation, report or response, and consideration of its worth or relevance (VELS Thinking Processes L4) | √ |
| Is able to identify useful and irrelevant or useless information or key words when collecting information for an investigation, report or response (VELS Thinking Processes L4) | √ |
Library Teacher: Alison Partridge December 2013