Lesson Plans
Introduction
The lesson plans in this section are examples of the different kinds of learning activities
that implement the library media curriculum. They can be used as is or modified to meet
the needs of the students in a particular group. The library media specialist needs to
collaborate with the classroom teacher to provide library media lessons that are integrated
with the classroom curriculum. Some of these lessons are actually long-term projects that
will take several library media visits to complete or may be completed in the classroom.
Other lessons are meant to be completed in one library media lesson.
When designing lesson plans, the library media specialist needs to consider the
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Special education accommodations
Career aspects
Technology skills
Gifted/talented differentiation strategies
Multiculturalism
Interdisciplinary links
Performance Instruction/Assessment
Study skills.
All of these elements may not be in each lesson, but over the school year each of these
elements should be included in one or more library media lessons. Suggestions for
differentiation are included in this curriculum notebook in the Differentiation Section.
When writing a lesson plan, the library media specialist must include:
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Introduction: With every lesson the library media specialist should post,
state, and discuss the student outcomes with the students. Student outcome
language may have to be adapted for the individual lesson. Elicit prior
knowledge concerning the lesson.
Modeling: When introducing a new learning activity, the library media
specialist needs to walk the students through an example of how to do the
activity. The library media specialist needs to verbalize the thinking and
procedural processes involved in the new activity.
Closure: Students should state what they did and learned in their library
media lesson. The library media specialist needs to assess whether the
students achieved the posted student outcome.
For individual help with lesson planning, call the resource library media specialist.
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