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Eliot River Library |
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Eliot River School Library Resource Center is an important learning environment where students, teachers, and teacher-librarian work together on activities directly related to the curriculum being followed in classrooms.
What is Happening?
Open Book Exchange - everyday from 8:25 - 9:00
Regular Library Periods - grades four, five and six come to the library every 6 day cycle to learn library skills, and exchange books.
Resource-based learning projects - classes come at various times during the year, either in small groups or as a whole, to work on research projects, author studies, novel studies, internet activities, learning stations, etc... .
Book Fairs - twice a year.
The Library Program Involves
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Resource-based learning
This is a student-centered approach that focuses on students using a wide variety of books, electronic and human resources.
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Information Literacy
Students learn how to access, interpret, evaluate, organize, select, produce and communicate using a variety of texts, media and technologies.
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Information Process
The information process involves:
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Planning for the process
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Gathering the information
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Interacting with information
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Organizing information
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Creating new information
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Sharing the information
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Evaluating the process
Resources
The school library resource center offers a variety of resources for both student and teacher use.
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Books - easy reading, fiction, and nonfiction
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Encyclopedias - bound and electronic
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Dictionaries
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Atlases
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CD-ROMs
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Videos, filmstrips and tapes
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Microcat Search computers
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Nine networked computers that have Internet access
Get Involved! Become a library monitor or volunteer.
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