Fifth Grade Library Standards
MBUSD LIBRARY STANDARDS -- FIFTH GRADE: (last updated 2002)
Standard 1: Accesses information efficiently and effectively
Standard 2: Evaluates information critically and competently
Standard 3: Organizes information
Standard 4: Uses information effectively and creatively
Standard 5: Evaluates process and product
Standard 6: Practices ethical usage of information and information technologies
Standard 1: Accesses information efficiently and effectively
- Utilize the library/media center to explore and experience print and electronic materials for pleasure or curricular requirements: Access non-fiction books utilizing the full Dewey Decimal numbers.
- Utilize the library catalog and electronic resources: Utilize the index of periodicals.
Standard 2: Evaluates information critically and competently
- Determine appropriateness of selected material: Evaluate reliability of information.
- Respond to literature: Identify first and third person.
- Analyze the information (thinks about the story/information and asks questions about what he/she doesn’t understand): Identify irrelevant information.
- Discuss the contributions of authors, illustrators, and publishers: Recognize publishers' impact on the literature produced.
Standard 3: Organizes information
- Compile research information: Take notes from research materials and organize them in a meaningful way.
Standard 4: Uses information effectively and creatively
- Select and utilize appropriate library and research skills: Use a dictionary as a guide for syllabication, pronunciation, spelling, definitions.
- Discuss books he/she has read: Students will be able to read specific purposes: pleasure, justify predictions, identify and infer cause and effect, determine central message.
Standard 5: Evaluates process and product
- Understand the research process: Determine when more information is needed.
Standard 6: Practices ethical usage of information and information technologies