4th Grade Ideas

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4th Grade ideas submitted by Adams 12 Teacher Librarians


Information Literacy and Library Skills - Add your lesson to the table below


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Library Orientation
  • Proper care of materials
  • Check out procedures
  • Use alphabetical order to locate information
  • Locate areas in library
    • Understand the relationship between call number & author
    • Find books in the fiction section based on author
    • Locate non-fiction books based on its Dewey Decimal System
  • Distinguish between fiction and non-fiction
  • Independently locate & select a book based on personal interest
  • Use guide words in research sources to find information
  • Locate a book using the online catalog
 Use Parts of a book as information sources
  • Cover
  • Spine
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of contents
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Bibliography
 Research skills* Use reference sources to gather information
    • Dictionary
    • Thesaurus
    • Encyclopedia
    • Internet
    • Atlas
    • Almanac
    • Maps
    • Newspapers
    • Magazines
  • Take notes using a graphic organizer
  • Prepare a bibliography
  • Use a dictionary to identify appropriate word meanings & spelling
  • Begin to learn the difference between primary and secondary sources




















Great ideas! Curricular ideas and topics from 2009-2010 End of Year Reports.
Gr 4 ideas from end of year reports.pdf