Wrap up 2022 with a grand finale of savings! Save 25-50% savings on thousands of ebooks and audiobooks, including new releases, romance, mystery, comics, diverse reads and much more. Take advantage of our biggest sale to stock up your collection for the new year. In a typical teaching situation, you are given a set of guidelines — you have teaching standards you’re expected to impart, and then curriculum products to use as a road map. These are the teaching manuals and textbooks used to guide instruction. Teachers might adjust the order or depth of different lessons. They might not even like the quality of the product at all. But there is usually something to use. These kinds of products don’t exist in the school library world. I’ve never heard of a professional school library curriculum that includes all aspects of the things we need to impart — digital citizenship, basic technology skills, media literacy, genre identification, library usage and procedures, book handling skills, the distinction between reading for pleasure and reading for information, researching in databases — I could go on, but you get the idea. This is only taking into account my elementary level students! The American Association of School Librarians does publish standards, and these are helpful in guiding the big picture, but this does not lay out a day to day scope and sequence. However, we’re librarians. There is no way that a lack of overpriced material from a publishing house is going to keep us from teaching rich, engaging lessons. We just might have to work a little harder to find them. Below, I’ve gathered some of the places I look for lesson ideas and inspiration! Some of my favorite Instagram sources for book hauls and curated lists are Baby Librarians, MaiStoryBook, and The Tutu Teacher. They constantly share titles that I want to add to the library, use as a keystone for a lesson, or simply want in my read aloud repertoire. For library lessons, my far and away favorite is The Read Aloud Librarian, but I also adore the resources shared by The Book Wrangler. There you have it! Some of my favorite ideas for finding library lessons. Do you have a favorite resource I’ve missed? Let me know! 10 Ways to Build a Community of Readers in Your Library More Posts About Libraries and Librarianship in our Weekly Library Feature
