Elementary Library

Unit 1

Welcome to the Library!

PACING 5 weeks NOTE TO INSTRUCTOR

The purpose of this unit is to teach students behavior expectations, library procedures and routines, and familiarize students with the library collection and layout. Use your discretion to vary from this unit plan to teach the procedures and routines unique to the individual school. KEY STANDARD(S) 1.1: Establish reading behaviors for lifelong learning and growth. 3.1: Exhibit library etiquette. 3.2: Understand the library layout, classification system, and circulation process. END OF UNIT COMPETENCY Students will follow procedures to enter and exit the library, sit in their assigned spaces, participate in library learning, and listen to read aloud stories with respect. Students will be able to find and choose books to borrow from the library collection by browsing or by using the library online catalog. Students will know how to borrow and return books. Students will take care of library books. Students will know the consequences of late or lost materials.

RESOURCES Picture Books ●​

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All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold All Because You Matter by Tami Charles The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken

What Should Danny Do? A School Day by Ganit Levy

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●​ Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library by Julie Gassman ●​ How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander ●​ Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein ●​ A Library Book for Bear by Bonny Becker ●​ The Library Fish by Alyssa Satin Capucilli ●​ Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen ●​ Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk ●​ Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn ●​ The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi ●​ Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen ●​ The Pigeon Has to Go to School by Mo Willems ●​ This is a School by John Schu ●​ School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex ●​ The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade by Justin Roberts ●​ We Don’t Eat Our Classmates! By Ryan T. Higgins

Nonfiction ●​

Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia by Jeanette Winter ●​ Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai ●​ The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita L Hubbard ●​ Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh ●​ This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World by Matt Lamothe ●​ We Want to Go to School! The Fight for Disability Rights by Maryann Cocca-Leffler What’s Your Favorite Color? By Eric Carle ●​

Selection of Beehive Book Nominees

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