Library at Eagle Cove School (formerly GICS) 
 

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The Rogers-Wilbur Library was completed in 1992 and houses the school's library and computer lab.  The library collection totals approximately 4000 items.  Students have a regularly scheduled library class each week and are encouraged to visit the library at other times as well.

Curriculum Overview

Pre-Kindergarten
           The Library program for Pre-Kindergarten is designed to provide a rich, stimulating environment that promotes an appreciation for literature and a life-long love of reading. We stress exploration of traditional literature (folk and fairy tales, nursery rhymes) and award-winning books, awareness of parts of and care of books, the location of and difference between fiction and nonfiction.

Kindergarten
          The Library program continues to promote each student’s love of reading and encourages an appreciation of the many resources that a library has to offer.  Library skills for Kindergarten include an awareness of subject grouping of nonfiction, familiarity with the terms author, title, and illustrator, and continued exposure to a variety of literature genres.

1^st Grade
        In First Grade, students begin to understand that fiction books are shelved by author while non-fiction materials are shelved by subject.  While encouraging a life-long love of reading, students learn to select books appropriate for their personal reading levels and to select books that meet personal interests.  As a class, we examine a variety of illustration styles and continue to learn about a variety of authors and illustrators.

First graders also participate in the Chessie Reading Program, a program designed to encourage them to read beginning chapter books.

2^nd Grade
         Second-graders practice alphabetical order and use it to find library materials and information easily.  We also investigate the location of fiction materials and biographies and practice dictionary skills.  The students begin to use the catalog to search for materials by author, title, and subject and to then find the desired materials on the shelf.  The Chessie Reading Program is again open to students, helping them to bridge the gap between picture books and the more difficult fiction materials they will read in the upper grades.

3^rd Grade
         Student use of the Library catalog is reinforced in Third Grade as students search by author, title, and subject.  The students begin to use encyclopedias, locate information using tables of contents and indices, and discuss folk tales, myths, and award winning books.  The Library program continues to promote an appreciation for literature and a life-long love of reading.

4^th Grade
          There is a greater emphasis on reference sources in fourth grade as students use encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and the Internet to search for information.  The fourth graders continue to practice using the catalog to locate materials, and the 10 main classes of the Dewey Decimal System are explored.  Book talks are given regularly to introduce the students to adventure, mystery, fantasy, realistic, historic, and science fiction titles, and reading of all kinds is encouraged.

5^th Grade
          Fifth-graders review and use multiple informational sources, recognize and communicate specific information needs, choose sources and locate information to meet those needs, skim for information, and are introduced to the arrangement of certain Dewey Decimal subclasses.  The Internet is used to find information, and students learn to evaluate websites and their authority.  Book talks continue to be used often to promote interest in books and a lifelong love of reading.

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