New ReviewFranklin D. Roosevelt is best known for his role in the Great Depression and World War II. However, he also was one of the first politicians to think about how future generations would remember the history of his time. Using video clips...

National Library Week honors the American tradition of free access to information, to books, magazines, and even computers. Launch a celebration of the holiday with a short video that provides a brief history of lending libraries.

To teach something effectively, it helps to go straight to the source. An FAQs guide outlines how to effectively use the resources provided by APA Style Central to properly format citations. Included information covers topics such as how...

Some of the best information to include when writing a research paper doesn't come from books, magazine articles, or informational websites—it comes from dissertations. However, reading an entire dissertation is often a daunting task....

Does the publication date come before or after the title? Should there be a comma between the location and year? The answer depends on whether you're using the MLA, APA, Chicago,4or CSE/CBE style guide. A citation builder clears up...

Keep young readers accountable with a self-directed reading schedule! Learners write down their reading goals in a blank calendar and make a goal for the entire month as well. 

Students love the opportunity of going to the library to jump into that one comfy chair in the whole room with a book, or be a lucky one to get to the computers before anyone else. But knowing how to locate books and other reference...

The middle schoolers in your class are inundated with media messages like no generation before them. Help them interpret what they are seeing and experiencing between online video clips and alongside busy freeways with a worksheet about...

Everyone deserves to read a great book! Here, pupils write a persuasive letter to the school's librarian detailing their favorite story and why it should be found on the shelves. Class members' persuasive reading passages are shared with...

The library is such a valuable resource for kids of all ages. Help elementary readers learn all about parts of the library, text features for both fiction and nonfiction text, and different ways to find books that they want to read.

Acquaint kids with all corners of the library with a scavenger hunt! They can search individually or in pairs for the answers to the 10 clues on this list. When finished, they check out several books for summer reading.

Where's Waldo? In the library, of course, teaching people how to care for, locate, and re-shelve books. Waldo also reviews alphabetizing, familiarizes class members with library vocabulary, and provides them with his own special bookmarks. 

Spine, glossary, title. Here's a game that familiarizes kids with the terms given to the various parts of a book. Use it as part of a unit of library skills. 

After a reading of Jeanne Willis' The Boy Who Thought He Was a Teddy Bear, primary graders must decide if the photos they are shown picture children in the library acting like boys and girls or misbehaving bears. Develop library skills...

Young readers accompany Mr Crumb as he explores 10 different features of the library. Worksheets designed to be used with each chapter of Phyllis Perry's award-winning tale are included in the 16-page packet.

What is a feature article? Your budding journalists will review the term, study and identify some characteristics of a feature article, and build awareness by sifting through feature articles. As a possible extension, consider actually...

Young scholars recall and use previous knowledge of the library's reference and nonfiction sections. Also they utilize various forms of reference (encyclopedias & dictionaries) and nonfiction books.

In this library activity worksheet, learners complete the 28 sentences with a word or phrase from the word bank that describe the things to do in the library.

In this researching and locating information activity, students read over the description of library resources and then identify the sources they would use to find 5 types of information.

Students discuss library resources and how to locate them by answering various scenarios. Role-playing as librarians, they write essays stating five reasons why the library should not be closed down.

Students use Internet and library resources to select and examine the origins of phrases or words, particularly words that have origins in other languages.