KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM
Our Kindergarten students enjoy coming to the library each week to participate in a read-aloud with accompanying activity and/or discussion built around a class-related theme or a current holiday. Students learn appropriate behavior, listening skills, rules for discussion, as well as parts of a book, book care, and beginning genres.
Quarter 1 Learning Targets:
Identify the librarian by name
Identify library rules and expectations
Define and explore key library terms and terminology
Identify the location of the different types of resources in the library
Begin to determine fiction/nonfiction differences
Identify the parts of a book
Listen to test read aloud: retell and discuss
Quarter 2 Learning Targets:
Arrange words in alphabetical order by first letter
Understand the responsibility of the author and illustrator
Identify the title and author; locate the title and author on the front of a book.
Connect the librarian and library as a source of information
Recognize that nonfiction/informational text are a source of information
Identify the internet as a source of information but needs to be used with an adult
Quarter 3 Learning Targets
Define nonfiction
Identify the author and illustrator as well as their roles in creating the text
Identify the parts of a book
Compare and contrast nonfiction and fiction through read-alouds
Retell information heard via read-aloud from a nonfiction book
Answer text-based questions about the information heard via read-aloud in nonfiction books
Summarize and organize information using graphic organizers
Quarter 4 Learning Targets
Explain the responsibility of the author and illustrator
Identify the title and author; locate the title and author on the front of a book
Listen to stories and identify story elements: setting, character, beginning, middle, end
Explore poetry
Compare and contrast literature in written form to visual or oral adaptation