WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW AND BE ABLE TO DO IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

INFORMATION LITERACY

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Building Capacity

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Guided Independent

INQUIRE

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Supports

Background knowledge

Ask Questions

Know what is researchable

“AGOPP and the basic

concepts of research”

GAIN KNOWLEDGE

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Supports

Use Online, Subscription Databases

Use an index

Find print resources with call numbers

Navigating an encyclopedia

Use patron’s catalog to find resources “…knowing how to

alphabetize so that

they can find an

author, look up a word, find an

encyclopedia entry, etc.”

THINK CRITICALLY

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Supports

Identify Credible sources

Use Noodletools to Cite Sources

Recognize difference between fiction and nonfiction

Put information into one’s own words

“basics of a

bibliography (what is a

publisher and

where do you

find it, etc.)”

INTERPRET INFORMATION

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Supports

Generate new knowledge

Make informed decisions

Use multiple resources

Make connections and inferences

“I spend lots of time with my sixth graders going over the online resources, discussing differences between encyclopedias and databases…”

SHARE KNOWLEDGE

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Supports

Use technology for expression

Work collaboratively to solve problems

Use a variety of formats to prepare findings/conclusion

“it’s the basics that students

seem to “forget”

as well as many

not having keyboarding

skills.”

APPRECIATE LITERATURE

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Supports

Persues information related to personal interests

Connect literature and multimedia to learning

Identify relationship between fiction and nonfiction literature and real life

References

Matrix – MSDE Curriculum, State, and National Information Literacy Outcomes and Standards

School Library Media State Curriculum – PreK through 8