“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” --Albert Einstein
Oak Knoll K-5 Library Standards & Skills
Kindergarten Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Using fiction and non-fiction selections: Students recall who, what, where, when, why and how as they retell main events in a story. When applicable, students identify main topic, supporting details and tell how people, events or ideas are connected. They ask and answer questions about new words in a story, and identify the difference between storybooks and poems. Students identify the author and illustrator, and describe their jobs. Students use illustrations to tell a story. They compare and contrast story characters and identify how two selections are like or different.
Students recognize common types of texts- storybooks, poems, fiction, and non-fiction. As they read and are read to from a variety of sources, they ask and answer questions about key details in a text using complete sentences, and connect reading to life experiences. Students are exposed to multiple styles of expression through author studies.
First Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between books that tell stories and informational texts. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. They read poems, rhymes, songs, and stories. This year students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where and how questions and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story. They use illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas and understand fiction and non-fiction. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features to understand non-fiction. Students participate in author studies, and a wide variety of enriching activities in language arts.
Students become more familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety or resources. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Second Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students read poems, rhymes, songs, and stories. This year students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where and how questions and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. . They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story. They use illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas and understand fiction and non-fiction. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selection, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students begin to tell how events in history are connected and understand the scientific formula. Students participate in author studies, and a wide variety of enriching activities in language arts.
Students become more familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety or resources. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Third Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students find answers to specific questions within stories and retell stories from diverse cultures. They read poems, rhymes and songs. Students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where, and how, and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story, identify differing points of view, and explain how characters’ actions affect the story. Students understand the difference between literal and non-literal language. They use illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas and understand fiction and non-fiction. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students begin to tell how events in history are connected, and understand the scientific formula. Students participate in author studies, readers’ theater, poetry writing and reciting, and a wide variety of enriching activities in language arts.
Students become more familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out and care for a variety of resources. They use guidewords to locate information in reference texts, and perform keyword searches of a topic using our library cataloging system. They are introduced to the Dewey Decimal System. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Fourth Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Students participate in author studies, readers’ theater, poetry writing and reciting, and a wide variety of enriching literature activities in language arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between fiction and non-fiction. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students find the answers to specific questions within stories and retell stories from diverse cultures. They read poems, songs and rhymes. Students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where, and how, and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story, identify differing points of view, and explain how characters’ actions affect the story. Students identify themes and draw conclusions using supporting details from fiction. They summarize in their words and compare and contrast stories. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students relate how events in history are connected, and understand the scientific formula.
Students are familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety of resources. They use guidewords to locate information in reference books, and perform key work searches of a topic using the online library cataloging system. Students use standard reference materials. Students become more familiar with the Dewey Decimal System. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Fifth Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Students participate in author studies, readers’ theater, poetry writing and reciting, and a wide variety of enriching literature activities in language arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between fiction and non-fiction. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students find the answers to specific questions within stories and retell stories from diverse cultures. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story, identify differing points of view, and explain how characters’ actions affect the story. Students identify themes and draw conclusions using supporting details from fiction. They summarize in their words and compare and contrast stories by thinking about he different points of view. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students relate how events in history are connected, and understand the scientific formula. Students explain how authors use reason and evidence to support particular points in a text. They use information from two different texts on the same topic to speak knowledgeably about the topic. Students summarize the main ideas and significant details from research and reading. They understand the structures of stories, plays and poems.
Students are familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety of resources. They use guidewords to locate information in reference books, and perform key work searches of a topic using the online library cataloging system. Students use standard reference materials. Students become more familiar with the Dewey Decimal System. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” --Albert Einstein
Oak Knoll K-5 Library Standards & Skills
Kindergarten Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Using fiction and non-fiction selections: Students recall who, what, where, when, why and how as they retell main events in a story. When applicable, students identify main topic, supporting details and tell how people, events or ideas are connected. They ask and answer questions about new words in a story, and identify the difference between storybooks and poems. Students identify the author and illustrator, and describe their jobs. Students use illustrations to tell a story. They compare and contrast story characters and identify how two selections are like or different.
Students recognize common types of texts- storybooks, poems, fiction, and non-fiction. As they read and are read to from a variety of sources, they ask and answer questions about key details in a text using complete sentences, and connect reading to life experiences. Students are exposed to multiple styles of expression through author studies.
First Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between books that tell stories and informational texts. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. They read poems, rhymes, songs, and stories. This year students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where and how questions and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story. They use illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas and understand fiction and non-fiction. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features to understand non-fiction. Students participate in author studies, and a wide variety of enriching activities in language arts.
Students become more familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety or resources. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Second Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students read poems, rhymes, songs, and stories. This year students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where and how questions and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. . They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story. They use illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas and understand fiction and non-fiction. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selection, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students begin to tell how events in history are connected and understand the scientific formula. Students participate in author studies, and a wide variety of enriching activities in language arts.
Students become more familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety or resources. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Third Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students find answers to specific questions within stories and retell stories from diverse cultures. They read poems, rhymes and songs. Students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where, and how, and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story, identify differing points of view, and explain how characters’ actions affect the story. Students understand the difference between literal and non-literal language. They use illustrations and details in a text to describe key ideas and understand fiction and non-fiction. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students begin to tell how events in history are connected, and understand the scientific formula. Students participate in author studies, readers’ theater, poetry writing and reciting, and a wide variety of enriching activities in language arts.
Students become more familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out and care for a variety of resources. They use guidewords to locate information in reference texts, and perform keyword searches of a topic using our library cataloging system. They are introduced to the Dewey Decimal System. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Fourth Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Students participate in author studies, readers’ theater, poetry writing and reciting, and a wide variety of enriching literature activities in language arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between fiction and non-fiction. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students find the answers to specific questions within stories and retell stories from diverse cultures. They read poems, songs and rhymes. Students ask and answer questions about key details in text including who, what, when, where, and how, and describe these in retelling of both fiction and non-fiction selections. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story, identify differing points of view, and explain how characters’ actions affect the story. Students identify themes and draw conclusions using supporting details from fiction. They summarize in their words and compare and contrast stories. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students relate how events in history are connected, and understand the scientific formula.
Students are familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety of resources. They use guidewords to locate information in reference books, and perform key work searches of a topic using the online library cataloging system. Students use standard reference materials. Students become more familiar with the Dewey Decimal System. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
Fifth Grade Skills
Exposure to quality literature of diverse genres fosters basic literacy skills and supports growth in all areas of language arts. Library skills in all grade levels reflect California and Common Core Standards in Language Arts.
Students participate in author studies, readers’ theater, poetry writing and reciting, and a wide variety of enriching literature activities in language arts.
Drawing on a wide range of text types, students explain major differences between fiction and non-fiction. Students confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. Students find the answers to specific questions within stories and retell stories from diverse cultures. They begin to compare and contrast what characters do in a story, identify differing points of view, and explain how characters’ actions affect the story. Students identify themes and draw conclusions using supporting details from fiction. They summarize in their words and compare and contrast stories by thinking about he different points of view. Students identify the main topic and supporting details in non-fiction selections, and use text features, diagrams and pictures to understand non-fiction. Students relate how events in history are connected, and understand the scientific formula. Students explain how authors use reason and evidence to support particular points in a text. They use information from two different texts on the same topic to speak knowledgeably about the topic. Students summarize the main ideas and significant details from research and reading. They understand the structures of stories, plays and poems.
Students are familiar with library tools and understand how to locate, check out, and care for a variety of resources. They use guidewords to locate information in reference books, and perform key work searches of a topic using the online library cataloging system. Students use standard reference materials. Students become more familiar with the Dewey Decimal System. They begin to take advantage of our substantial, diverse and rich collection.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” --Albert Einstein