New Standards-Based Lessons for the Busy Elementary School Librarian: Social Studies

by Joyce Keeling

Overview

Busy elementary librarians need help applying the new AASL Standards Framework, especially in collaboration with social studies teachers seeking to apply the social studies standards framework. This book shows a path forward for both.

This book will be a tremendous help to the busy elementary school librarian who is working with busy elementary social studies teachers. As they are designing and co-teaching library-based lessons based on the Social Studies Standards Framework, the English Literacy Common Core Standards, and the new American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards Learners Framework, these reproducible lessons will enhance planning and implementation.

You'll get ready-to-use lessons as well as model lessons to adapt to the needs of your own curriculum and students.

All standards are applied—with needed handouts—and other tools and current lists of recommended resources are provided. Lessons are coordinated to common elementary social studies curricula at indicated grade levels but can be adapted as template lessons as needed. Current resource lists aid librarians in collection development to support new and current standards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440872242
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/06/2020
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Joyce Keeling is author of three other books to help elementary school librarians. She has taught elementary library classes and been an elementary and middle school library director for more than 25 years.

Editorial Reviews

Recommended for beginning librarians or those needing suggestions on incorporating social studies standards in library lessons.” —School Library Jourbanal

From the Publisher

06/01/2020

Keeling's newest book focuses on incorporating AASL's Standards Framework for Learners, Common Core English Language Literacy Standards, and the Social Studies Standards C3 Framework into lessons on civics, economics, geography, and history. Lesson plans include learning objectives, instructional procedure (the same throughout, suggesting "paired or team work" but without specifying strategies), a worksheet, and recommended resources. Frequently, the lessons begin with the reading and discussion of a work of fiction. The worksheets feature rudimentary clip art illustrations and often focus on low level skills. A few ask students to apply their knowledge or engage in an activity such debating as loyalists or patriots, but those are the exceptions. Some activities are puzzling (such as a lesson about inventors that includes only white men), and many maps are incomplete. Each lesson contains a lengthy list of fiction and nonfiction resources; within the resources, there can be a wide range of reading levels, and some sites and books are no longer available. While the author claims that the time line for the lessons is about 20 minutes, most cannot be completed in that time frame. The lesson plans share a consistent format and are well organized, providing activities and easily sourced materials that can be used in a collaborative teaching model or by the school librarian to support the classroom's social studies lessons. Curating the standards from the three areas is a welcome time saver for librarians; however, they'll want to modify most lessons to include formative assessment, differentiation, and critical thinking activities. VERDICT Recommended for beginning librarians or those needing suggestions on incorporating social studies standards in library lessons.—Laura Fields Eason, Danville H.S., KY

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