Colouring outside the lines

COLOURING OUTSIDE THE LINES: library lesson activities for

younger studentsKATE REID

Australian School Library Association Inc.


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This is me

Kate Reid BA Dip Ed (LOTE), MAppSci (Teacher Librarianship)

Discovered the joys of school libraries in 2000 and never looked back!

Strong magpie tendancies: I pick up ideas from books, friends, movies, Twitter, podcasts, journals, conferences, anywhere and everywhere…


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A FEW THINGS THAT INFLUENCE HOW I DESIGN MY ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNGER

STUDENTS

First (briefly) the theory


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Developmental stage


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Attention span


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Timetable


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Library environment – traditional…


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Or modern?


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Equipment


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Technology


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End of the theory

Factors that influence activity choices:Developmental stageAttention spanTimetableLibrary environmentEquipmentTechnology

Any comments or questions before

we get to the examples?


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EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITIES I USE WITH PREP/FOUNDATION/KINDER

CLASSES

What you really want to know


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Group effort


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Bottoms

Student photograph used with parental permission


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Pamela Allen ideas

Read Who sank the boat?

Give students a piece of A3 paper with a boat on the bottom

Give students the animals to colour and cut out

Ask students to recount the order of the animals by gluing then onto the boat page in a stack


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Pamela Allen ideas 2

Read lots of her booksPhotocopy some covers

onto cardSlice up into random

trianglesHand out packets of

pieces, and ask students to work together to put them together to make one of the covers


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Pamela Allen ideas 3

Read Mr McGee, put pictures on board or screen and ask children to put them into the correct sequence and retell the story


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That was Prep

SequencingRetellObservation skillsLittle piecesRecording ideas




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EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITIES I USE WITH YEAR 1 CLASSES

Moving up


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Anthony Browne author study


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Anthony Browne author study 2


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Anthony Browne author study 3


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Predicting the future

Ask students to predict something about the story based on the cover

Note their predictions on your whiteboard, or in an app on your device, or get them to line up and record their statements using your laptop or a handheld recorder.

After the story, go back and check – which ideas were right?

Variation: stop halfway through the story and make predictions


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Making predictions


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Working with non-fiction

This activity introduces children to subject classification.Plan for groups of 4 students, and pre-select books from 5 or 6 subject areas (depending on class size)Scatter shuffled selections of books around the room and forbid students to touch!Each student picks one book, and then they have to walk around and try to work out how to make a group of 4 (without being told to use the subject)As the groups form, they check with the teacher and then sit down.Once all groups have formed correctly, lead a class discussion on why their books made a group. Give hints to look at the spine until someone spots the call numbers. Ask everyone to see if their group has the same numbers. This leads nicely to a discussion of the organisation of non-fiction.


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Comparing books


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That was Year 1

PredictingReflection Critical comparisonsTechnology to capture thinking




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Getting bigger


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Scary Night Year 2 Effort


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Australian animal stories



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Creating ebooks


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Creating ebooks cont.


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Series study 1


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Series study 2


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Series study 3


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Series study 4


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Series study 5


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Fractured Fairytales


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Fractured Fairy Tales 2


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The Cupcake Man video ebook

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That was Year 2

Animal factual narrativesMaking ebooksSeries fictionFractured fairytales




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Hit the big time


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Mapping the Library


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Library skills mastery



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Multiple media


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Hands-on


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Google translate


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Sheer desperation


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Catalogue tutorial task


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That was Year 3 (and 4)

OrientationIndependent use of the LibraryMixing technology with hands-

onGlobal connections




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AN ASSORTMENT OF TECHNIQUES

Generalities


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All about them


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Making Connections

Text-to-SelfText-to-TextText-to-World


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Emotional literacy


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Think, pair, huddle


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Visual lesson sequence


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Capturing their thinking

Use technology to capture student thinkingTake photos of student work and record them

describing what they didTake photos of books and record students

recounting what they rememberA 2min video made in Explain Everything

with Prep (Foundation/Kinder) students



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Images

All images used in this presentation were either my own photographs, images sourced from the Pixabay website www.pixabay.com under a CC0 Public Domain licence,

Student photos are used with permission

http://www.pixabay.com/


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