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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> Over the years, I’ve had a lot of success with a 35-45 minute program that I run for 1<sup>st</sup> graders that teaches basic
library skills. The four main topics being (1) differences between fiction and non-fiction, (2) locating materials in alphabetical order, (3) proper ways to remove and replace books from shelves, and (4) proper handling of materials once checked out from the
library. It’s worked like gangbusters for groups of 15 - 250 students. If interested, please find the program breakdown attached, and as always feel free to change and adapt as you see fit.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> What I’d like to do is create trilogies of this program- and for progressing grades- in order to have once-a-semester contact with
students who we might never get to see otherwise. Additionally, my intention to having it only for certain grades is to create a special rite of passage feel to the presentations for the classes. I’m thinking something along the lines of this:</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1<sup>st</sup> grade: Basic library skills 1, 2, 3</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">3<sup>rd</sup> grade: Basic library site search and request skills, basic database and internet search skills</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">5<sup>th</sup>/6<sup>th</sup> grade: Intermediate library site search and request skills, intermediate database and internet search
skills, basic reference skills</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<span class="grame">school(</span>?): Advanced library site search and request skills, intermediate to advanced database use, intermediate to advanced reference skills</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> If anyone finds helping create some or all of these programs intriguing, I'd love to start up a group to begin production of simple
lesson plans to share with the Oregon library community. If there are enough Portland-area librarians who would like to be a part of this, I’d be happy to coordinate an informal group meeting
over food/drinks. I'll also begin creating a blog or wiki so everybody can share success stories. Thanks for your time, and have a great week.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sincerely,</span></font><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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