Welcome the Herington Elementary Library Adventure!
by Lyneva Bryan
Herington Elementary LIBRARY presents reading at its best!
The above books are the current William Allen White Award books! Come enjoy the new titles!
Lyneva Bryan, Media Specialist
Drop into the library to enjoy the open library atmosphere where students are encouraged to read what they like as well as learning for their future. Popular series, titles, authors and award winning opportunities await those who enter! Join the fun, Mrs. Bryan
K -1st Flexible 20-25 minutes of story time and instruction and 20 minutes for check out and recreational reading.
Learn care of books, recall, characters, storyline, setting
Focus on checking out, library protocol, vocabulary, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and comprehension, and reading for pleasure
2nd 20 minutes – check out and 25 min. instruction or story time
Focus -Tall Tales, alphabetical order, Caldecott, Biographies
3rd-5th 20 minute slot weekly for check out and recreational reading. These students can come and go freely the rest of the week. They can read magazines or browse the new Destiny Quest online.
3rd 30 minutes of instruction: Graphic Organizers, same/different, recognizing 5w’s (who, what, where, when, why or how). They begin to take basic notes on fiction stories.
Focus - Dictionary skills, alphabetical order, context, using the computer card catalog, Fiction main idea.
4th 30 minutes of instruction: Gathering information for reports, Main Idea for Non-fiction, Plagarism
Focus -Using the computer card catalog to find references and recreational reading, Paragraph writing, Idioms , Introduced to non-fiction fact note taking
New titles for William Allen White Awards
2010-2011
5th Dewey Decimal, Research with indexes, Taking accurate report notes, Bibliographies
2009-2010 William Allen White titles
Focus- Text type structure, Main Idea, reliable computer Data base use to find accurate factual information for research papers. Introduce Inference
