Description
Finding a book you want in a library is a necessary skill to being an independent library patron. Libraries have books organized alphabetically, by an author’s last name, and separate fiction from nonfiction; even if the library is genrefied. Students need to be able to:
- Search the library catalog to find titles, authors, and topics that they love.
- Quickly read an end cap or library signs to determine if the book they want is on that shelf.
- Read a spine label to find the specific dewey decimal.
- Read a spine label to quickly identify an author they’re looking for.
As school librarians it’s important for our students to independently find books. For young students to do this, they need to
- practice numerical and alphabetical order.
- know that fiction books are organized by an author’s last name, what letter that begins with, and how to use library signage to locate it.
- know that nonfiction books are organized by general topics separated out by number prefixes.
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YOU’LL LOVE HOW QUICKLY YOUR STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO FIND BOOKS WITHIN THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM!
Included
AFTER downloading this resource you’ll get:
⭐Station signs for every activity. They are available to print in portrait or landscape mode so that you can put them in an acrylic sign holder or sheet protector. You can even laminate them and place them in a table top sign holder.
⭐ 5 Dewey Decimal activities that help children practice using the library catalog, learning Dewey Decimal System, and locating books in the library. These are great to use over a couple of library classes. Give students a choice or have them rotate through the activities.
⭐Easily differentiate for your students by choosing activities that meet different abilities.
⭐Activities include:
→ Spine Label Draw: Students draw number cards and find a book that has those numbers on the spine label.
→ Dewey Decimal Match: Students match topics to the Dewey Decimal number they’ most likely find it in.
→ Dewey Decimal Sort: Students sort book spines into proper shelf order.
→ Dewey Scavenger Hunt: Students use the library catalog to find books on popular topics.
→ QR Code activity to play a shelving game online.
Included
AFTER downloading this resource you’ll get:
⭐Station signs for every activity. They are available to print in portrait or landscape mode so that you can put them in an acrylic sign holder or sheet protector. You can even laminate them and place them in a table top sign holder.
⭐ 5 Dewey Decimal activities that help children practice using the library catalog, learning Dewey Decimal System, and locating books in the library. These are great to use over a couple of library classes. Give students a choice or have them rotate through the activities.
⭐Easily differentiate for your students by choosing activities that meet different abilities.
⭐Activities include:
→ Spine Label Draw: Students draw number cards and find a book that has those numbers on the spine label.
→ Dewey Decimal Match: Students match topics to the Dewey Decimal number they’ most likely find it in.
→ Dewey Decimal Sort: Students sort book spines into proper shelf order.
→ Dewey Scavenger Hunt: Students use the library catalog to find books on popular topics.
→ QR Code activity to play a shelving game online.