Library Intercurricular Correlation – Grade 6

 

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Library Instructional Collaboration

Resources

TAKS Objectives    Grades 3-8

TEKS

A. Information Acquisition

 

The student is expected to:

 

The student will:

The student is expected to:

6.A.1

Locate and use important areas of the library. (circulation area, card catalog/OPAC, fiction/easy, non-fiction, biography, reference, and periodical)

Lesson:
Resources-Web:
Resources-Other:

 

 

 

6.A.2

Demonstrate appropriate behaviors for locating, checking out, returning, and caring for library materials according to district procedures

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Resources-Other:

 

 

 

6.A.3

Identify the arrangement of fiction, nonfiction and biography on the shelves and locate specific materials using the Dewey Decimal System

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:

Let’s Do Dewey

Dewey Web Quest

DDS Matching Game

DDS Concentration 


Resources-Other:

Dewey and the Decimals by Paige Taylor. 1579500501
Stretchy Library Lessons by Pat Miller 1579500838

 

 

 

 

TAKS Math

# 1 Demonstrate an understanding of numbers, operations, and quantitative reasoning.

 

# 6 Demonstrate an understanding of the mathematical processes and tools used in problem solving.

Math

111.22.1A Compare and order non-negative rational numbers.

111.22.1B Generate equivalent forms of rational numbers including whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

111.22.1C Uses integers to represent real life situations.

111.22.11A Identify and apply mathematics to everyday experiences, to activities in and outside of school, with other disciplines, and with other mathematical topics.

6.A.4

Demonstrate an understanding that the card or online catalog is an index to the library collection and use the catalog information to locate materials.

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:

Using Online Scavenger Hunts


Resources-Other:

 

 

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Language Arts                  

110.22.13A:  Form and revise questions for investigations, including questions arising from interest and units of study.

110.22.13C: Use multiple sources including electronic texts, experts, and print resourced, to locate information relevant to research questions.

 

Technology Applications

126.12.2A:  Demonstrate proficiency in the use of a variety of input devices such as mouse/track pad, keyboard, microphone, digital camera, printer, scanner, disk/disc, modem, CD-ROM, or joystick.

126.12.4B:  Apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the acquisition of information including keyword and Boolean search strategies.

6.A.5

Demonstrate a working knowledge of library terminology, such as renew, hold, online resources and online catalog

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:

Common Library Terms

Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

# 1:  Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.

 

Language Arts                            

110.22.9B:  Draw on experiences to bring meanings to words in context such as interpreting idioms, multi-meaning words, and analogies

6.A.6

Understand the role of public libraries, museums and community resources as a valuable source of information.

 

Lesson:

 

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Resources-Other:

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Social Studies

113.22.16A: Identify institutions basic to all societies, including government, economic, educational, and religious institutions

6.A7

Identify and use the parts of a book to gather information, including glossary, copyright, index, table of contents, publisher, guide words, and title page

Lesson:

Guide Word Trees

 

Resources-Web:
Resources-Other:
Library Skills: (Grades Four through Grade Six) by The School Librarians of Chambersburg, PA ISBN:  0513020446

 

Language Arts                        

110.22.13C:  Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions.

6.A.8

Understand that bilingual books and Spanish books are part of the library collection when applicable.

 

 

Lesson: 

Resources-Web:
List of Bilingual Books
Resources-Other:

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B. Reading Literacy

 

The student is expected to:

 

The student will:

The student is expected to:

6.B.1

Listen attentively, critically, and purposefully to gain information, to solve problems, and for enjoyment.

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Resources-Other:

 

TAKS Reading

# 1:  Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.

#3: Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts

110.22.1A:  Determine the purposes for listening such as to gain information, to solve problems, or to enjoy and appreciate.

110.22.3A: Listen to proficient, fluent models of oral reading, including selections from classic and contemporary works.

110.22.4A:  Connect his/her own experiences, information, insights and ideas with those of others through speaking and listening.

110.22.9A:  Develop vocabulary by listening to selections read aloud.

6.B.2

Explore culturally diverse works of various authors and illustrators

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Author Study

Resources-Other:
Multicultural Connections
 by Norma Sadler
ISBN 0810841800

 

TAKS Reading

#2: Apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.

#4: Apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written text.

Language Arts

110.22.4A:  Connect his/her own experiences, information, insights and ideas with those of others through speaking and listening.

110.22.4B:  Compares oral traditions across regions and cultures.

110.22.4C:  Identify how language use such as labels and sayings reflects regions and cultures.

110.22.11D:  Connects compares, and contrasts ideas, themes and issues across text.

110.22.14B: Determine distinctive and common characteristics of cultures through wide reading.

110.22.14C: Articulate and discuss themes and connections that cross cultures.

 

Social Studies

113.22.15C:  Analyze the similarities and differences among selected world societies.

6.B.3

Select, read, and respond to materials from a variety of literary genre for pleasure reading and/or to acquire information, such as nonfiction, fiction, poetry, magazines, newspapers, and electronic texts

 

 

Lesson:
Book Talk Genres 

 

Resources-Web:
Book Reports Ideas


Resources-Other:

 

 

 

TAKS Reading

# 1:  Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.

#2: Apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.

#3: Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts

110.22.7A:  Read regularly in independent-level materials.

110.22.7B:  Read regularly in instructional-level materials that are challenging but manageable.

110.22.8A:  Read classic and contemporary works.

110.22.8B:  Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure

110.22.8C:  Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writer’s craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing.

6.B.4

Read or listen to, and understand, a variety of literary forms such as fiction, poetry, myths, fables, tall tales, folktales, plays, informational books, biographies, and autobiographies

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Cinderella Around the World Writing Webquest

Folklore Genre Slide Show

Lessons on Poetry

Folktale Lessons

Literature Links

Resources-Other:

Children's Literature: Promotion, Use, and Teaching in the School Media Center ed. by H. Thomas Walker 0874366666

 

 

TAKS Reading

# 1:  Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.

#2: Apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.

 

#3: Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts

110.22.7A:  Read regularly in independent-level materials.

110.22.7B:  Read regularly in instructional-level materials that are challenging but manageable.

110.22.8A:  Read classic and contemporary works.

110.22.8B:  Select varied sources such as plays anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure.

110.22.8C:  Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writer’s craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing.

110.22.12C:  Compare communication in different forms such as contrasting a dramatic performance with a print version of the same story or comparing story variants.

110.22.12E:  Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies, and autobiographies.

6.B.5

Explore works from award lists, such as  Bluebonnet, Newbery, and Coretta Scott King titles, and recognize the significance of these awards

Lesson - Book Talk, Bluebonnet Video or PowerPoint.

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:


Resources-Other:

 

 

 

TAKS Reading

 # 1: Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.

#2: Apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts

Language Arts

110.22.8A:  Read classic and contemporary works.

110.22.8C:  Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writer’s craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing.

110.22.12E:  Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies, and autobiographies.

6.B.6

Read and understand literary terms.

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Literary Terms Lesson

Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

#3:  Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts

110.22.12D: Understand and identify literary terms such as playwright, theater, stage, act, dialogue, analogy, and scene across a variety of literary forms.

6.B.7

Distinguish the role of the author from the illustrator and recognize the style of various authors and illustrators.

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Point of View Informational Text, Point of View

Resources-Other:

True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

 

 

TAKS Reading

#3:  Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts                                                110.22.8B:  Select varied sources such as plays anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure.

110.22.8C:  Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writer’s craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing.                 
110.22.
22A:  Describe how illustrators’ choice of style, elements, and media help to represent or extend the text’s meaning.

6.B.8

Identify different versions of stories

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Lesson on using graphic organizers –Comparing and contrasting versions of Cinderella.

Resources-Other:

 

TAKS Reading

#2:  Apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.

#3:  Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts                                                  110.22.8A:  Read classic and contemporary works.

110.22.10L:  Represent text information in different ways such as in outline, timeline, or graphic organizer.

110.22.12C:  Compare communication in different forms such as contrasting a dramatic performance with a print version of the same story.

110.22.23B:  Compare and contrast print, visual, and electronic media such as film with written story.   

6.B.9

Participate in various reading incentive programs.

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Lone Star Reading List

Lesson-Reading Bingo

Resources-Other:

 

Language Arts                                                  110.22.7A:  Read regularly in independent-level materials. 

110.22.7B:  Read regularly in instructional-level materials that are challenging but manageable.  110.22.8A:  Read classic and contemporary works.          

110.22.8B:  Select varied sources such as plays anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure.

110.22.8C:  Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writer’s craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing.

6.B.10

Use a variety of comprehension strategies to assist reading and understanding.

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Online Comprehension Exercises

Building Reading Comprehension

Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

#2:  Apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.

#3:  Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.
#4: Apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written text.

Language Arts
110.22.10A:  Use his/her own knowledge and experience to comprehend.                                              110.22.10C:  Monitor his/her own comprehension and make modifications when understanding breaks down such as by rereading a portion aloud, using reference aids, searching for clue, and asking question.                             110.22.10E: Use the text’s structure or progression of ideas such as cause and effect or chronology to locate and recall information.                           110.22.10H: Draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience.                            110.22.11A:  Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to texts.                                110.22.13G:  Draw conclusions from information gathered.                                                  

6.B.11

Understand simple story structure, including character, plot, setting, storyline, and conflict.

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Lesson: Characterization

Lesson:
Point of View

Graphic Representation:
Literary elements


Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

#2:  Apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.

#3:  Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts                                                 110.22.12.F: Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, point of view, relationships, and changes they undergo.
110.22.12G:  Recognize and analyze story plot, setting, and problem resolution.
110.22.12H: Describe how the author’s perspective or point of view affects the text.
110.22.12J:  Recognize and interpret literary devices such as flashback, foreshadowing, and symbolism.
110.22.12K:  Recognize how style, tone, and mood contribute to the effect of the text.  

Social Studies
113.22.21B:  Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions.

6.B.12

Develop vocabulary through listening and reading.

Lesson:

Resources-Web:
Lesson: Vocabulary

Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

# 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts
110.22.9A:  Develop vocabulary by listening to selections read aloud.                               110.22.9B:  Draw on experiences to bring meanings to words in context such as interpreting idioms, multiple-meaning words, and analogies.
110.22.11C:  Support responses by referring to relevant aspects of text and his/her own experiences


 

C. Research & Technology Application

6.C.1

Communicate effectively one-to-one and in group situations.

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Lesson: Alternative to Book Reports

Lesson: Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology

Resources-Other:

 

Language Arts                                                 110.22.5A:  Adapt spoken language such as word choice, diction, and usage to the audience, purpose, and occasion.                                                 110.22.5B:  Demonstrate effective communications skills that reflect such demands as interviewing, reporting, requesting, and providing information.  

 

Technology Applications

126.12.8D:  Use technology in self-directed activities by sharing products for defined audiences.                                                  

6.C.2

Understand and use appropriate electronic search strategies, including narrowing and expanding searches; keyword, author, title, and subject searches; and Boolean operators

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Lesson: Smart Key Word Searching

Resources-Other:

 

Technology Applications

126.12.2A :  Demonstrate proficiency in the use of a variety of input devices such as mouse/track pad, keyboard, microphone, digital camera, printer, scanner, disk/disc, modem, CD-ROM, or joystick.

126.12.4A:  Use strategies to locate and acquire desired information on LAN’s and WAN’s, including the Internet, and collaborative software.

126.12.4B:  Apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the acquisition of information including keyword and Boolean search strategies.

6.C.3

Identify and define a specific problem or task for research, investigation or discussion

 

 

Lesson:
Lesson - Brainstorm initial strategy with "How to Select a Restaurant"

Resources-Web:

Big6 #1

Resources-Other:

Teaching Information & Technology Skills : the Big 6 in Elementary Schools. Michael Eisenberg . ISBN:  0938865811

 

 

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Math

111.22.11B:  Use a problem-solving model that incorporates understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness.

 

Social Studies

113.22.21A:  Differentiate between, locate, and use primary sources such as computer software, interviews, biographies; oral, print, and visual material; and artifacts to acquire information about selected world cultures.
113.22.21C:  Organize and interpret information from outlines, reports, databases, and visuals including graphs, charts, timelines and maps.

113.22.23A:  Use problem-solving to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.

6.C.4

Generate ideas or relevant questions as a basis for inquiry/research

 

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:

Defining a Research Topic

Big6 #1

Resources-Other:

 

 

TAKS Writing

#1: Within a given context, produce an effective composition for a specific purpose.

Math

111.22.11B:  Use a problem-solving model that incorporates understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness.

 

Language Arts

110.22.13A:  Form and revise questions for investigations, including questions arising from interest and units of study.

110.22.20A:  Frame questions to direct research.

 

Social Studies

113.22.23A:  Use problem-solving to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.

6.C.5

Select and use appropriate print and electronic sources, such as dictionaries, magazines, almanacs, thesauri, atlases, encyclopedias, experts, newspapers, timelines, nonfiction books, and Internet resources to gather needed information

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:
Big6 #3 & #4

Lesson: Save the library

Noodletools

Resources-Other:

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Language Arts

110.22.9C:  Use multiple reference aids, including a thesaurus, a synonym finder, a dictionary, and software, to clarify meanings and usage

110.22.13C:  Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions.

110.22.18I:  Select and use reference materials and resources.

110.22.20C:  Take notes from relevant and authoritative sources such as guest speakers, periodicals, and on-line searches.

 

Social Studies

113.22.23.A: Use problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.

 

Technology Applications

126.12.6B:  Resolve information conflicts and validate information through accessing, researching, and comparing data.

126.12.6C  Demonstrate the ability to identify the source, location, media type, relevancy, and content validity of available information.

6.C.6

Analyze information by distinguishing fact from opinion, determining cause and effect, comparing and contrasting sources, and predicting outcomes

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:

Lesson:  Compare and Contrast

Lesson:  Cause and Effect

Lesson: It’s Raining Cats and Dogs (Predicting Outcomes)

Fact and Opinion 

Fact and Opinion - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

#4:  Apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts

110.22.9B:  Draw on experiences to bring meanings to words in context such as interpreting idioms, multiple meaning words and analogies.

110.22.10E:  Use the text’s structure or progression if ideas such as cause and effect or chronology to locate and recall information.
110.22.10H: Draw inferences and support them with text evidence and experience.                       110.22.10J: Distinguish fact and opinion in various texts.
110.22.12I:  Analyze ways authors organize and present ideas through cause/effect, compare/contrast, inductively, deductively, or chronologically

Social Studies

113.22.1B: Analyze the historical background of selected contemporary societies to evaluate the relationship between past conflicts and current conditions.

6.C.7

Interpret graphical information, including pictures, charts, graphs, maps, timelines, graphic organizers and diagrams

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:

Big6 #4

 

Using Graphic Organizers

 

Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

#3: Use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Language Arts

110.22.13D:  Interpret and use graphic sources of information, such as maps, graphs, time lines, tables, or diagrams to address research questions.

110.22.23A:  Interpret and evaluate the various ways visual image makers such as illustrators, documentary filmmakers, and political cartoonist represent meanings.

 

Social Studies

113.22.22D:  Create written and visual material such as journal entries, reports, graphic organizers, outlines, and bibliographies.

6.C.8

Analyze information to determine usefulness to problem solution and currency of information

 

Lesson:

 

Resources-Web:

Big6 #4

 

Lesson - Trash and Treasure

 

Resources-Other:

TAKS Reading

#4: Apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts.

Math