Wilkerson

__Plan of Action __ As the librarian of Michigan Avenue Elementary School, this plan of action will be played out during library classes. Each fifth grade class visits the library as a group for 45 minutes once a week. The students will be taught information literacy skills dealing with the encyclopedia. This plan will be taught during two class sessions. This lesson will help to students know how information is arranged, what kinds of information can be found, and how to access that information easily. They will also be learning to look for the guide words to help them locate topics.
 * During the first class session the students will listen to a story called //The Shelf Elf Looks in up in the Encyclopedia.// After reading the story the students will recall the events and how the elf discovered the encyclopedia.
 * The students will get in groups and think of a topic, write it big on a piece of paper, and then arrange themselves with the rest of the class how the words would be arranged in an encyclopedia (alphabetically)
 * . Then the students would look these words up in the encyclopedia and record the information on the back of the paper.
 * They would also need to write the guide words from the page they found the information on the front of their paper. They will write the guide words small and in the corresponding corners of the paper.

The next lesson during library the students will find a note card scattered on the library floor.
 * They will choose a card to pick up. That card will have a topic written on it.
 * The topics will require the students to look at more than one book of the encyclopedia to get enough information on that topic.
 * For example: Weather and specially tornadoes, hurricanes, clouds, fog, or blizzards.
 * They will record this information and write it out in a way as though they would teach someone about their topic.
 * They will share their information learned with the rest of the class.

Follow up and refresher lessons will be done throughout the school year to help maintain good encyclopedia skills. Students will also be learning about the on-line encyclopedia and will be required to research information using both types of encyclopedias. This is in hopes of preparing them for middle school the following year.