Elementary Library

participating in literacy table activities. Library ITs should support students managing their time with audible and/or visual signals for five minutes remaining, one minute remaining, and check-out time has ended. Please note that in order to check-out books to every student, Library ITs are often caught at the desk and unable to circulate the room while students browse. This leads to behavior management challenges. Library ITs should remind students every library booster: ●​ How to find a book ●​ How to borrow a book ●​ Where to go and what to do after they have borrowed a book ●​ Consequences for appropriate and inappropriate behavior ●​ Clean ○​ Students should keep the library shelves tidy as they browse. Library ITs may instruct students to use shelf-markers. They may also require students use the last five minutes of library to tidy the shared space. ●​ Private ○​ To protect student privacy, Library ITs should not allow other students to help lend materials to classmates. Self-checkout is also discouraged as there is a higher chance of error and less responsibility for said errors. ●​ Supportive ○​ Library ITs should offer reader’s advisory for students as they browse. For example, students who can’t find what they initially want, are disappointed by missing books, or must wait for a popular title should be encouraged to place titles on hold and then borrow and read similar titles. Students seeking specific genres should be directed to the correct shelves. Displays with popular titles should be in the library to draw student attention. Self-Selection of Library Materials Canyons District library policy protects students’ right to self-select library materials. From Kindergarten to 5th grade, all students should be given opportunity to independently choose a library book to borrow and bring home if they want to. Parents and guardians can determine appropriate limits to student borrowing privileges for their child.

Transitions Transitions in the library include: ●​ Entering the library learning space

●​ Moving from tables to floor/steps and back ●​ Using technology in the learning space ●​ Moving from the learning space to browsing the library collection ●​ Moving from browsing the collection to waiting in line to borrow materials

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