The library serves students in Early Childhood through 6th grade and is the foundation for all IB PYP areas of curriculum, providing resources to support the Units of Inquiry (UOI).
The library has adopted a flexible model in which teachers work with Specialists and the Librarian to identify the uses and integration of information fluency skills in classrooms.
Information Fluency Skills
Information fluency skills, guided by the Elementary School Language Curriculum, are integrated into appropriately connected Units of Inquiry to provide meaningful and practical learning experiences. Students are encouraged to become independent library users and lifelong readers through the development of a love of reading.
Through "Information Fluency" lessons delivered by the Elementary School Librarian or Homeroom teacher, students learn to:
- Identify and select books from various genres
- Understand the difference between fiction and nonfiction resources
- Select books based upon review, reflection, and reading level
- Correctly use shelf-markers, understanding that books have particular places
- Understand the responsibility of borrowing books and the importance of book care
- Understand that the library is a community space housing shared resources
- Participate in shared and read-aloud group story times for enjoyment
- Show awareness of page numbers and how they work
- Identify most major parts of a book, including Contents, Index, and Glossary pages and how these are used
- Demonstrate an early understanding of how to use the Destiny catalog to search for and locate books to develop their research skills
