August –  

• Orientation/Manners (all grades )

• Maclary Website (Show features and what students can use for homework) and UDLibSearch (Grades 3, 4, and 5)

December - 

• Dewey decimal system  (Do We Know Dewey?)

• December authors

• Holiday

March –

• Delaware Diamonds or Dr. Seuss

• St. Patrick’s Day

• Delaware Diamonds or Fiction/nonfiction - website for nonfiction

• March authors  

Power Points on various topics: 

• Caldecott Award

• Dewey Decimal System

• Fiction Genres

• Nonfiction Genres

• Dr. Seuss

• Check out
• Location of materials
• Book care (Grades 1 and 2)
• Online catalog (Grades 3,4 and 5)
• September authors

January –

• Delaware Diamonds

• Caldecott/Newbery  - online resource with biographical info about the illustrator

• January authors  

•  Book fair

April –

• Poetry

• April authors

• Earth Day

Repeat curriculum -

1st grade - Classics

2nd grade - Geography themed books, Folktale unit

3rd grade - African folktales unit, Dewey Decimal System

4th grade - Literature genres unit ( website for genres, Genre study, genre passport, Genre lists) 

5th grade - Newbery books unit, Research unit, Native American folktales unit

October –

• Parts of a book

• October authors

• Delaware Diamonds

• Halloween  

February –

• Delaware Diamonds or Biography (Omnibiography)

• Valentine’s day

• Delaware Diamonds or Black History

• February authors

May –

• Book Fair

• May authors

• Review / Games

• Summer reading  

November –

• Arrangement on shelves

• Delaware Diamonds

• November authors  

June –

• Summer authors