Plateau Valley School Media Center
Library Skills Scope and Sequence
First Quarter
Preschool
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
 Book care
 Book selection (from a preselected group)
 Book care
 How to choose a good
book
 Book care
 How to choose a good
book
 Book care
 How to choose a good
book
 Selecting books from the
shelves (using shelf markers)
 Differences between fiction
and nonfiction
 Locations of library books
 Read aloud program
 Seasons/ Apple trees
 Book care
 How to choose a good book
(including purpose)
 Review I Read, You Read,
and Look at Books
 Review definitions of fiction
and nonfiction
 Purpose of fiction and
nonfiction
 Reading nonfiction for
information
 Locations and order of
library books
 Book care
 How to choose a good book
 Clifford books
 Color books
 Book care
 How to choose a good
book (including purpose)
 I Read, You Read, and Look
at Books
 Differences between fiction
and nonfiction
 Locations of library books
 Read aloud program
 “Good book” with I-Pick
process
 Review I Read, You Read,
and Look at Books
 Review locations of library
books
 Practice locating own books
by call number
 Review locations of library
books
 Practice locating own books
by call number
 Using online database to
look up books
 Review locations of library
books (including HS side)
 Practice locating own books
by call number
 Using online database to
look up books
 Website reliability
 Fiction books in nonfiction
section
 Authors and illustrators (study
throughout year)
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Eric Carle
Jan Brett
Lois Ehlert
Dr. Seuss
Denise Fleming
(Lots of pictures, only a few words)
 Purpose
 Audience
 Purpose
 Audience
 Appropriate content
 Purpose
 Audience
 Appropriate content
Second Quarter
Preschool
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
 Lifecycle of pumpkins
 Holiday books
 Lifecycle of pumpkins
 Summarizing, sequencing a
story
 Thanksgiving activities
 Author/ Illustrator—definition
of terms
 Read aloud program
 Sequencing, summarizing
stories
 Jan Brett author study
 Read aloud program
 Thanksgiving research
 Holiday songs research
 Read aloud program
 Thanksgiving research
 Tomie dePaola author study
 Read aloud program
 Thanksgiving research
 “Christmas in Other
Countries” research
 Read aloud program
 Thanksgiving research
 Primary vs. Secondary
Resources
 Christmas traditions
research
 Summarizing
 Compare and Contrast
 Story elements
Third Quarter
Preschool
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
 Nursery rhymes
 Magazines
 Winter research project
(guided, as class or groups)
 Author study
 Magazines
 Parts of a book
 Paraphrasing
 Title page
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 Differences from books
 Fiction and nonfiction
 Parts of a book
 Post office and letter writing
 Colorado Children’s Book
Award (CCBA)
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Polar animals or people
KWL
Research questions
“What I learned”
 Locating information
 Paraphrasing
 Steven Kellogg
 Bill Peet
 Magazines for research and
pleasure
 Colorado Children’s Book
Award (CCBA)
Magazines
Plagiarism, summarizing
Reliability of websites
Bibliography
Parts of a book
Fifth Grade
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Magazines
Plagiarism, summarizing
Reliability of websites
Bibliography
 Writing one
 Evaluating one
 Parts of a book
 CSAP Practice
 Evaluating books using a
criterion
 Summarizing
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 Parts of a book
Elements of poetry
Cause/ effect
Inference
Parts of speech
Fourth Quarter
Preschool
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
 Real vs. made up books
 Flower and plant lifecycle
 Research project
 Research project
(individual)
 Research project
 Research project
 Research project
 Genre study
 Newbery books
 Weather
 Dinosaurs
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KWL
Research questions
Small group research
Power point presentation
 Caldecott Books
 Sound
 Weather
 Dinosaurs
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Graphic organizer
Locating information
Paraphrasing
Bibliography
Power point presentation
 Caldecott Books
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Graphic organizer
Locating information
Paraphrasing
Bibliography
Sound display and
experiment
 Inventions
 “I Wonder” Questions
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Graphic organizer
Locating information
Paraphrasing
Bibliography
Typed project to post on
website
 “I Wonder” Questions
 Colorado animals
 States
 “Fact Find”
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Graphic organizer
Locating information
Paraphrasing
Bibliography
Typed project to post on
website
 Research projects
(throughout year)
 Native Americans
 Body Systems
 Biography