Information Literacy Curriculum

An effective information literacy curriculum requires collaboration at many levels. Media specialists must work with teachers to establish an integrated program of meaningful, standards-based activities. Teachers must work with other educators across grade levels and content areas. In other words, the information literacy curriculum must be aligned both horizontally and vertically to ensure that knowledge and skills are introduced, reinforced, and mastered across content areas and grade levels

Read Let Me Count the Ways (From EBSCOhost, requires IUPUI login) by Dan Fleming in School Library Journal (August 2004, 50(8), 42). Focuses on the library's role in helping boost the mathematical ability of children. Literacy and critical thinking skills included in the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks; Steps to incorporate math into library projects; Sample questions to help librarians get started with their math projects. INSET: Links Between Information Literacy and Math Skills.

Lamb's Latitudes
How many times do students study about the metamorphosis of a butterfly in their school career? We've got to get teachers connected with each other. Each teacher is so focused on their curriculum that they sometimes forget that their children spend more than 12 years in school with many different teachers. It's essential that we provide the scaffolding that students need to be successful at each grade level. Each year should prepare students for success at the next level. This is particularly true of information skills. Rather than teaching the same skills over and over, consider how to build skills over time as student thinking matures and student projects evolve.

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Explore information literacy curriculum:

Building Information Literacy - Prince Edward Island

Information Studies from the Ontario School Library Association - expectation & scope/sequence

Mariemont Schools in Ohio - by grade level

Mankato Schools Information Literacy Curriculum Guidelines

Lubbock Schools in Texas - by grade level