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The following five standards describe what students are expected to know and be able to do.
Standard 1: back to top
- Access information efficiently and effectively
- Recognizes the need for information
- Formulates questions based on informational needs
- Identifies a variety of potential strategies for locating information
- Seeks information from diverse sources, contexts, disciplines, and cultures
Standard 2: back to top
- Evaluates information critically and competently
- Determines accuracy, relevance, and comprehensiveness
- Distinguishes among fact, point of view, and opinion
- Identifies inaccurate and misleading information
- Selects information appropriate to the problem or question at hand
Standard 3: back to top
- Uses information accurately, creatively, and ethically
- Organizes information for practical application
- Integrates new information for one’s own knowledge
- Produces and communicates information and ideas in appropriate format
- Devises strategies for revising and improving process and product
- Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology (including freedom of speech, censorship, copyright, and plagiarism)
Standard 4: back to top
- Appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information
- Is a competent and self-motivated reader
- Develops a background in types of literature and literary elements
- Derives meaning from information presented creatively in a variety of formats
Standard 5: back to top
- Pursues information related to personal interest
- Seeks information related to personal well-being, such as career interest, community involvement, health matters and recreational pursuits
- Designs, develops, and evaluates information products and solutions to personal interests
The following benchmarks articulate the concepts, skills and strategies that students at a given grade level will achieve. The benchmarks are introduced at one level and are reviewed and reinforced at higher levels.
Kindergarten back to top
- Understands basic organizational pattern of library
First & Second Grade back to top
- Locates part of a book
- Selects a book to share with their family
Third & Fourth Grade back to top
- Explains information needed
- Understands the concepts of keywords
- Differentiates between fact and fiction
- Identifies appropriate sources of information
- Uses both text and visuals to understand literature
- Selects a book independently for personal reading
Fifth & Sixth Grade back to top
- Locates materials on library shelves by call number
- Uses print and electronic sources to access, extract, and produce information
- Evaluates search process
- Communicates results of an information search in format appropriate for content
- Understands the need for citing sources of information (copyright)
- Observes Internet guidelines defined in school handbook
- Distinguishes between types and elements of literature
Seventh & Eighth Grade back to top
- Understands scope, depth and potential usefulness of a variety of available information resources
- Uses search and navigational features of print and electronic sources to efficiently access information
- Examines and evaluates information
- Organizes information from multiple sources
- Creates and effectively communicates information and ideas to others
- Understands the concept of plagiarism and cites sources properly
- Selects literature on need, interest and appropriateness
Grades 9-12 back to top
- Understands scope, depth and potential usefulness of more advances sophisticated, and diverse resources
- Develops and executes successful strategies to effectively access information
- Examines and evaluates information
- Extracts relevant and essential information from multiple sources
- Creates and effectively communicates information and ideas to others
- Understands and respects the concepts of intellectual freedom, intellectual property and plagiarism
- Seeks information related to personal interest
- Selects literature based on interest, need, and appropriateness
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