What's taught at the library
It is our goal at Dutch Hill Media Center to foster life-long learning by teaching students how to find information in any library.  We also expose students to a wide variety of literature, so they can make educated selections in choosing literature.

Kindergarten

3rd & 4th Grade

• Book care

• Use of shelf markers

• Author/Illustrator

• Title

• Library behavior/procedures

• Listening skills

• Introduce library terms

• How to use the library

• Book appreciation

1^st & 2^nd Grade

• Library behavior/procedures

• Use of shelf markers

• Book care

• Reinforce library terms

• Listening skills

• ABC Order (Fiction arrangement)

• “Everybody” library arrangement

• Fiction/Non-fiction

• Book Appreciation

• Award Literature (Caldecott)

• How books are made

• Parts of a book

• Author/Illustrator

• Library/shelf arrangement

• Dictionaries

• Encyclopedias

• Thesaurus

• Parts of a book

• Listening skills

• Dewey Decimal System

• Non-fiction arrangement

• Award Literature (Caldecott/Newbery/Children's Choice)

• Computer Skills (Destiny)

• Genre Identification

5^th & 6^th Grade

• Encyclopedias

• Atlases

• Almanacs

• Copyright

• Listening Skills

• Dewey Decimal System

• Research Skills

• Genre Identification

• Computer Skills (Destiny)

• Internet Skills

• Award Literature (Caldecott/Newbery/Sasquatch)

• Bibliographies