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 * ODE SCHOOL LIBRARY GUIDELINES **
 * ~KINDERGARTEN~ **


 * __ INFORMATION LITERACY __**** —Effective school library media programs provide information literacy skills instruction. **

_____ 1. Locate the school library media center and recognize library staff members. _____ 2. Identify items found in the library media center (e.g., books, magazines, computers). _____ 3. Understand that many activities take place in the library media center (e.g., reading, movies, puppet plays, storytelling, studying, exploring). _____ 4. Know that there is a library in the community—public library—that students may visit with their parents.
 * // Benchmark A: //**// Locate the school library media center, recognize library staff members and participate in library activities. //

_____ 1. Explore areas of the library media center with assistance from library media staff and classroom teachers (e.g., easy books, story area, listening centers, computer lab). _____ 2. Select books with guidance from the library media staff and classroom teacher. _____ 3. Checkout books with help from the library media staff and classroom teacher. _____ 4. Know that books may be taken home but must be returned. _____ 5. Discuss proper care of library books.
 * // Benchmark B: //**// Recognize that the school library media center has a variety of books and materials that may be used and borrowed, and understand the importance of proper care of these materials. //

_____ 1. Know that storybooks are in the easy book section.
 * // Benchmark C: //**// Understand that library books and materials are housed in specific areas of the library media center. //
 * _____ ** 2. Know that the library catalog gives access to information about all of the books and materials in the school library media center.

_____1. Listen to stories read by library media center staff. _____ 2. Look at books and read for pleasure. _____ 3. Use picture clues to help understand reading material. _____ 4. Know that there are many types of books (e.g., story books, rhyming books, counting books).
 * // Benchmark D: //**// Read and listen to stories for schoolwork and personal enjoyment. //

_____ 1. Identify what information is and recognize that it can be represented in a variety of ways (e.g., numbers, words, pictures, sounds). _____ 2. Decide what information is needed. _____ 3. Find the information with the assistance of the teacher or librarian (e.g., using books or observations). _____ 4. Use the information by sharing ideas and experiences.
 * // Benchmark E: //**// Understand what information is and use a process to find information. //


 * __ TECHNOLOGY LITERACY __**** —Effective school library media programs provide technology literacy skills instruction in the use of library-based technologies. **

_____ 1. Know that the school library has technology-based resources (e.g., computer, television, sound devices). _____ 2. View/listen to multimedia library resources (e.g., listening station, video, DVD). _____ 3. Understand directions for using library technology.
 * // Benchmark A: //**// Understand the school library materials may be provided in electronic formats that are organized in a system and that access to the system may be provided electronically. //

_____ 1. Talk about the Internet as information source. _____ 2. Use Web page functions: a. Scroll up and down page; b. Click on links; c. Use back button.
 * // Benchmark B: //**// Apply basic Internet browser and navigation skills to search for information on the Internet. //


 * __ MEDIA LITERACY __**** —Effective school library media programs support the learning of media literacy skills in collaboration with classroom teachers, technology integration specialists and technology coordinators. **

_____ 1. List personal reasons for creating media communications and messages (e.g., tell a story, to ask for something, to make someone happy). _____ 2. View familiar information in everyday messages (e.g., birthday greeting, holiday greeting, toy advertisement, road sign, warning label).
 * // Benchmark A: //**// Explore the intended effect of media communications and messages when delivered and received for personal and various other purposes. //

_____ 1. Recognize a variety of print and nonprint formats used in the delivery of media messages (e.g., book, television, film, radio, CD-ROM, DVD, e-mail, Web pages, photographs, charts, and graphs).
 * // Benchmark B: //**// Distinguish between a variety of elements used to create and construct media communications for personal and various other purposes. //