Find That Book!

The goal of all librarians (teachers, parents, etc) is for students to use the library independently. We want our students to access the materials available and find what they're looking for.  Of course, this is a slow progression starting in Kinder with just knowing books all have a place and we need to keep them in their place with a shelf marker.

This is a lesson I like to use with Kinder, 1st or 2nd graders (depending on the level and time of year) to help them review how to locate books in the Easy section of the library. Of course, before this lesson students have been exposed to great authors, they know the author writes the book, the 3 letters on the call number stand for the author's last name, etc.  This lesson is intended to give practice in a control environment with teacher and librarian support to see how to use alphabetizing to the 2nd letter to find the call number they are looking for.

You can find the printables for this library skill lesson at Find That Book!