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Team up with your classroom colleagues for student success! The focus of this new book is making connections between the classroom and the library. Whether working in Isolation, Coordination, Cooperation, or Collaboration, this complete lessonplanning guide gives elementary school librarians everything needed to work successfully with classroom colleagues. The methods and materials presented blend information literacy instruction with captivating lesson plans and enable school librarians to connect and unify learning goals. Each chapter includes individual lesson plan groupings for grades 3, 4, and 5. This innovative book addresses the latest AASL standards and NETS for educational technology. Every unit is connected to national classroom standards in Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science to enhance school leadership opportunities. The CD-ROM enables easy reproduction and customization of: Interactive PowerPoints for instruction and student use; Suggested bibliography; Extension activities and worksheets; Student resource sheets with games, templates, and more. Experienced Library Media Specialists, DuPuis and Carter provide all the tools you need on your journey toward Collaboration! ... Read more

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Take the pressure off your busy schedule with these standards-based library lessons! Quick and easy to implement, these proven 20-minute instructional lessons, organized by grade level, equip you with everything you need to effectively teach library and information literacy skills to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Based on AASL/AECT standards and McREL benchmarks, each lesson plan includes standards, learning objectives, teaching directions, reproducible worksheets and graphics, learning styles, teaching team, and related resources. Students will learn how to effectively employ print and electronic resources to find the information they need, and you will be thrilled with how effortlessly you can bring information and literary appreciation into every classroom and still have time for other library and teaching responsibilities! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Not what I expected.
With a title like "Lesson Plans for the Busy Librarian," this book seemed like a must have for me, a busy librarian. When I received the item I was very disappointed to find that none of the lessons were that unique or interesting. In addition to being the same old thing, the clip art is subpar, and the organization is very random. Let me just say this, I have owned the book for over a year and am yet to use a single lesson plan from it.

Save your money...
As a "busy librarian" the title drew the money from me in a hurry, but I was disappointed by the lack of depth- lots of coloring!Occasionally I use some of the reproducibles when I have a sub, however the quality of the graphics are poor.

Better books out there
I am an elementary school librarian. While this book has a few good lesson plans, I find the majority of them to be overly simplistic. Also, a lot of the graphics on the reproducibles are of very poor quality.

Time saver for teachers too!
Although directed to librarians, this book is also fantastic for elementary teachers.It's indexed to the Language Arts standards, learning styles and Multiple Intelligences. It contains patterns, instructions, hands-on activities and more, for literature-based multi-disciplinary units.A super resource! ... Read more

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The author designed this book, like Volume I of the set, to give elementary school librarians a quick, enjoyable way to coordinate with teachers to teach information literacy and literacy skills aligned with national standards. Each chapter consists of lesson plans for each grade level from K-5. In this second volume, as in the first, each chapter gives quick and easy, standard-based lessons with reproducible lesson sheets and simple directions. Each set of directions mentions teaching teams, objectives, learning modalities/Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, McCREL National Standards, AASL/AECT Standards, and detailed teaching resources/book titles. The volume contains all new lesson plans. Grades K-5.

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Don't waste your money
I was extremely disappointed by the lessons in this book. They are really nothing special at all and I don't think I found a single lesson in the book worth doing with my K-5 students. Two thumbs down.

Can't believe I bought this book!
Most of these lesson plans could be found elsewhere, for instance on state curriculum websites. The graphics are laughable. I wanted some new and different lesson plans, and these ideas are stale. Try "Funbrarian." Cheaper book, more FUN! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Junior Scholastic, published by Scholastic, Inc. on October 19, 2009. The length of the article is 549 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Information literacy: passport: Earth.(TEACHER TO TEACHER)
Author: Karen Kellaher
Publication: Junior Scholastic (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 19, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 112Issue: 4-5Page: T-8(1)

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The afternoon shadows were already growing long, when a splendid chariot drew up to the gates of the terrace-temple. Paaker, the chief pioneer, stood up in it, driving his handsome and fiery Syrian horses. Behind him stood an Ethiopian slave, and his big dog followed the swift team with his tongue out. ... Read more

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This eventful day had brought much that was unexpected to our friends in Thebes, as well as to those who lived in the Necropolis.

The Lady Katuti had risen early after a sleepless night. Nefert had come in late, had excused her delay by shortly explaining to her mother that she had been detained by Bent-Anat, and had then affectionately offered her brow for a kiss of "good-night." ... Read more

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At last the pioneer's boat got off with his mother and the body of the dog, which he intended to send to be embalmed at Kynopolis, the city in which the dog was held sacred above all animals. ... Read more

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The cloudless vault of heaven spread over the plain of Pelusium, the stars were bright, the moon threw her calm light over the thousands of tents which shone as white as little hillocks of snow. All was silent, the soldiers and the Egyptians, who had assembled to welcome the king, were now all gone to rest. ... Read more

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Once or twice Pentaur and his companions had had to defend themselves against hostile mountaineers, who rushed suddenly upon them out of the woods. When they were about two days' journey still from the end of their march, they had a bloody skirmish with a roving band of men that seemed to belong to a larger detachment of troops.
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The night during which the Princess Bent-Anat and her followers had knocked at the gate of the House of Seti was past.

The fruitful freshness of the dawn gave way to the heat, which began to pour down from the deep blue cloudless vault of heaven. ... Read more

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An hour later, Ani, in rich attire, left his father's tomb, and drove his brilliant chariot past the witch's cave, and the little cottage of Uarda's father.

Nemu squatted on the step, the dwarf's usual place. The little man looked down at the lately rebuilt hut, and ground his teeth, when, through an opening in the hedge, he saw the white robe of a man, who was sitting by Uarda. ... Read more

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As Nemu, on his way back from his visit to Ani, approached his mistress's house, he was detained by a boy, who desired him to follow him to the stranger's quarter. Seeing him hesitate, the messenger showed him the ring of his mother Hekt, who had come into the town on business, and wanted to speak with him. ... Read more

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In the winter of 1873 I spent some weeks in one of the tombs of the Necropolis of Thebes in order to study the monuments of that solemn city of the dead; and during my long rides in the silent desert the germ was developed whence this book has since grown. The leisure of mind and body required to write it was given me through a long but not disabling illness. ... Read more

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It was noon: the rays of the sun found no way into the narrow shady streets of the city of Thebes, but they blazed with scorching heat on the broad dyke-road which led to the king's castle, and which at this hour was usually almost deserted. ... Read more

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In the winter of 1873 I spent some weeks in one of the tombs of the Necropolis of Thebes in order to study the monuments of that solemn city of the dead; and during my long rides in the silent desert the germ was developed whence this book has since grown. The leisure of mind and body required to write it was given me through a long but not disabling illness. ... Read more

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My first George Ebers
This volume is my first George Ebers reading. I thought it would be a historical fiction and was only partially correct. This book is actually a documentary on what was known of ancient egypt with a story interwoven. Since this book is not a comtemporary or American writing, please take into account that it is very good work if you want to learn some amazing things about the egyptian people and customs surrounding the Rameses II time period. The only glich while reading is that I never seemed to realize when I was leaving the story for the documentary sections of the story (rather interuptive to the flow of the story). It is important to note that the documentation portions are necessary for the reader to understand why the story is progressing in the direction that it does. The author also adds explanatory notes that are in parantheses of anything he feels needs explaining for the lay reader. George Ebers is an interesting writer and I look for the remaining nine volumes of this epic.

Volume one spends much time founding the story of a young "unclean" girl who is run over by one of Rameses daughters who is visiting the city of the dead. We don't find out until much later that the young injured girl is Uarta but we do know the names of most of the other characters quickly. The events and characters that unfold are believable, even if the tale is spun slowly. ... Read more