First Grade Library Curriculum
The student will:
- Demonstrate the procedures for checking out materials.
- Apply alphabetical arrangement of fiction books to locate books on the shelf.
- Apply proper care of books.
- Identify the front cover, back cover, spine, spine label, and title page of a book.
- Experience a variety of literary forms to develop a love of reading, including poetry.
- Describe the roles of the author and illustrator, and the purpose of a title.
- Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.
- Discuss story elements, including characters, setting, main idea, and cause and effect.
- Use pictures and context clues to make predictions about story content.