WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON IN THE LIBRARYThe school year may be nearing the end, but things are still hopping here in the OPS Library Media Center. Our Kindergarten, first and second grade students have been learning about folktales. They've studied fables, fairy tales, trickster tales, tall tales and fractured fairy tales. Our first graders are even coming up with their own fractured fairy tales! We're also learning about how writers use words to create tone and mood in their stories, and our kindergartners are learning about how to infer and make predictions about a story's progression based on evidence from its text and illustrations. Our third and fourth graders have been honing their research skills by learning the Super 3 and Big 6 research models respectively. They have worked on a host of information and technology skills that will help them identify, locate, evaluate, organize and use research information to problem solve and complete projects. In particular, the third graders have learned how to utilize a KWL chart to drive their research of a topic, create effective keyword searches, and locate information on the web quickly and effectively. The fourth grade students have been learning the difference between primary and secondary sources, and how to effectively extract, paraphrase and cite information from those sources to avoid plagiarism. Our fifth grade students have also been learning how to use the Big 6 research model to guide their research. They have focused on how to formulate research questions, locate appropriate online resources (websites and databases), and evaluate those resources using criteria including the website's accuracy, authority, currency, objectivity and relevance to what they are researching. Meanwhile our sixth grade students have been studying poetry. They've considered what makes a poem a poem as well as where and how poetry can be found in the world around them. As part of this unit they've created blackout poetry (example below) and Google Search poems. They've also delved into the world of audiobooks and podcasts by sampling an episode of the popular Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls podcast on Billie Jean King.
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