Ages 9-14
Info Tasks for Successful Learning: Building Skills in Reading, Writing and Research
Carol Koechlin & Sandi Zwaan
Today's school children are confronted with a huge amount of information. To write essays, complete projects, and even communicate with their peers, pupils need effective strategies to help them grow as learners. Whether they get their information from books, the Internet or personal conversations, pupils need to build skills in reading, writing and research to succeed in school and life in this information age.
This time-saving book provides teachers with a tried-and-tested process for involving pupils in becoming information literate. Practical and ready-to-use, the book features more than fifty skill-building activities that give pupils hands-on opportunities to work with information. These activities involve manipulating and organising data as well as making connections with information in all subject areas.
Each activity focuses on a skill that makes an ideal mini lesson. The skills are grouped into the four categories that from the basics of information literacy:
- Evaluating information for relevance and validation
- Sorting information to make connections
- Working with information and testing ideas
- Analysing and synthesising information for meaningful conclusions
More than thirty organisers are included to help pupils build important strategies for using information. A unique glossary of terms will help teachers and students make better sense of the information age.
Contents
Evaluating Information for Relevance and Validity; Sorting Information to Make Connections; Working with Information and Testing Ideas; Analyzing and Synthesizing Findings and Drawing Conclusions; Design for Success; Organizers for Information Tasks; Glossary of Terms for Information Tasks; Index
2001 128 pp paperback
978-155138-133-6
£24.99
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