Fake news and misinformation is everywhere. Learn how to teach elementary students to locate reliable information, evaluate sources, and develop their writing skills in the classroom and in the library.
Empower students to find and evaluate information with this practical guide to supporting classroom writing and research instruction. You'll learn ways to teach students to evaluate information for accuracy and to collect information from credible sources such as library journals. Additionally, you'll learn how to incorporate writing into your makerspace, encourage curiosity through the inquiry process, and help students to find their voice. Along the way, you'll discover how to support various writing genres including technical writing and the research project and how to teach prewriting for digital media such as websites, blogs, and social media.
Lesson plans, which can be adapted from year to year as a part of the classroom and library curriculum, explain how students can use databases, search engines, books, and expert testimony to gather information. Also included are student samples and hands-on activities that will get students excited about learning.
Provides guidelines elementary students can use to evaluate resources for accuracy and credibility
Explains how to teach students not only where to look for information but also how to gather and use that information
Offers lesson plans that build research and note-taking skills
Teaches inquiry as a mode of learning
Hill, a library media technology specialist and author, offers a guide to help teachers and librarians teach students to use inquiry as a mode of learning and empower them to find and evaluate information. She shows how to incorporate writing into a library makerspace and allow students a chance to blend their thoughts, ideas, and creativity into a work of art meant to inform others about what they have learned through inquiry. She explains the pedagogy behind learning through the inquiry process, including brain development, empowering students to learn through inquiry, making learning meaningful, teaching research as a process of learning content, practical tips for establishing a writing lab in the library makerspace, guiding students to be critical evaluators of information, how she set up a writing lab using library journals to store student writing and inquiry and for student publishing, how to teach students to use the internet and evaluate sources, how they can keep track of information and turn it into learning, and presenting research. She then provides 41 lesson plans for teaching skills and presentation ideas to students from kindergarten to sixth grade, as well as reproducibles. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
