Help students learn how to find the books they love on the library shelves. They’ll be able to use the alphabet, spine labels, and authors’ last names to be independent library patrons.
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, even if the library is genrefied.
As school librarians it’s important for our students to independently find books. For young students to do this, they need to practice alphabetical order. They need to know that books are organized by an author’s last name, what letter that begins with, and how to use library signage to locate it.
This product has 38 total pages, and it includes:
- Spine Label Draw – Students draw letter cards and find a book that has those letters on the spine label.
- Author Match – Students identify the first 3 letters of the author’s last name. Then they can go find them on the shelves.
- Author ABCs – Students walk around the library to find authors on the shelf that begin with a letter. Then they write the names.
- Favorite Author Sort – Students draw 3 spine labels and put them in alphabetical order.
- QR Code Activity – Students play an ABC game online.
- Self-Correcting Spine Label Game – Students read an author’s name and identify where they’d find it on the shelves. If they click the correct letter they are moved to the next slide. If they choose incorrectly, they’ll be given a hint and a chance to try again.
- 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.
- Teacher Notes or Directions to help you set up and get organized.
Standards Addressed:
AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text.
- Inquire – A.2. – C.1. – D.1. – D.3.
- Collaborate – A.1. – A.2. – B.1.
- Curate – B.4. – C.1.
- Explore – A.1. – C.1.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards –
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- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.1.
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Deirdre Jameson (verified owner) –
My students struggle to understand the spine label layout. These games and activities helped them to be better and finding something by its call number.