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__Rationale for Curriculum Design__: Mary Bryant El﻿ementary School, according to the Florida Department of Education is an "A" rated school, with 13% of the students reading below grade level (Florida Department of Education [FDOE], 2010). Currently, there is no information literacy instruction conducted by a certified school media specialist. This curriculum design is a portion of an entire year-long information literacy project that can be instituted into the core curriculum. The benefits to student achievement, of an information literacy instructional program, have been repeatedly demonstrated through numerous precedent-setting studies conducted over the last twelve years. Specifically citing the following studies, relevant to information literacy instruction by the school media specialist: "How Idaho Librarians, Teachers, and Administrators Collaborate for Student Success" (2009): "Student Learning Through Wisconsin School Library Media Centers" in which the following statements were made" (2006): "Information Empowered: The School Librarian as an Agent of Agent of Academic Achievement in Alaska Schools" (2000): ﻿"Measuring Up to Standards: The Impact of School Libraries and Information Literacy in Pennsylvania Schools" (2000): The instructional goal is based on a needs assessment performed at the end of the previous year. The needs assessment will be drawn from the data taken from the "Impact Studies" performed over the past twelve years.
 * "Where principals and other administrators rated the teaching of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) standards as excellent, students at all three grade levels—elementary, middle and high school—were consistently more likely to earn advanced scores on the ISAT reading and language arts tests."
 * "School librarians help students acquire unique skills not taught in the classroom and information and technology skills essential for students in the 21st century."
 * "Schools where the librarian spends more time on instructionally-related student and teacher activities have higher WKCE scores."
 * "In terms of student usage, the more time students spend receiving instruction in the area of library/information literacy in which the library media staff are involved, the higher their test scores."
 * "Student test scores were higher the more time librarians worked cooperatively with classroom teachers, the more they taught information literacy independently, and the more they provided in-service training to teachers."

__Statement of Instructional Goal__:  Third grade students will identify a relevant topic for an assigned research question. This instructional goal is based on Florida's Next Generation Sunshine State Standards: Information and Media Literacy Benchmark for 3rd grade: LA.3.6.2.1: The student will determine information needed for a search by narrowing or broadening a topic, identify key words (Florida Department of Education [FDOE], 2010).

__Type of Learning in Instructional Goal__:  The learner, while achieving this instructional goal, is utilizing a combination of verbal and intellectual skills. Verbal skills are applied when the learner is providing specific responses to specific questions; describe, list, state, etc. Intellectual skills are employed as the learner is being discriminatory with an ill-structured problem; no one definitive solution is to be extracted. Therefore, cognitive strategies are being accessed to solve this information problem.

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