Pre-K


 * Information Fluency Skills for Pre-K**
 * NYS Common Core Foundation for Pre-K**

Finding and borrowing library books
 * Information skills**
 * Following directions
 * Taking turns
 * Standing in line without pushing and holding books without dropping them or bumping others
 * Find books about their interests by asking the librarian and sharing their interests
 * Books have a special home in the library (all of Eric Carle's books are under "C", etc.)

Word work Comprehension Listening and speaking Storytelling (with props)
 * ELA integration**
 * Read signs in the library
 * Enjoy rhyming words in nursery rhymes, songs, and poems
 * Acting out words
 * ABC books
 * Activating prior knowledge before read alouds: What do you know about...?
 * Study the illustration
 * Using prediction
 * Picture walks to identify the characters or setting or plot in the story
 * Book-in-hand experiences of all reading own copy of the book and seeing it as a series of illustrations (When the sun comes up, Goodnight Moon)
 * Listening to an imaginative text and participating in discussions, avoiding interruptions, attending for an ever-growing amount of time
 * Listening for differences in a fingerplay
 * Reciting with assisstance fingerplays, nursery rhymes, songs and short poems
 * Role playing characters in stories and nursery rhymes
 * Three Little Pigs, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel


 * Inquiry: Science, Math, Social Studies**
 * Sharing what they know
 * Asking questions about topics or hands-on objects like rocks and shells
 * Asking and sharing what they love and connecting that to finding books
 * 123 books


 * Arts integration**


 * Self-portraits on tiles**


 * Collages based on Windblown by Edouard Manceau**