This school year I have focused on collaborating with teachers as they implement the new CCGPS ELA. Students are required to do a lot of writing and there is a focus on informational texts and research...a perfect opportunity to use our (library media specialists) skills in those areas. The 2nd grade students had to conduct research on a cat in order to do a writing so I offered to create a graphic organizer.
I also collected books on different species of cats and located articles in World Book Kids (we have a subscription to it online). I scheduled time to go to each 2nd grade class with the resources and assist the students with the research. I modeled note-taking and reading to answer the questions (on the graphic organizer) by using a book about bears. The students were grouped by species of cat and I stayed to help them. It went very well and the students then used their notes on the graphic organizer to write their paper.
CC2W7: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single subject to produce a report, record science observations).
