Until the internet gets a lot more organized and user friendly, people looking for information, especially children, will need to look for information in books a good deal of the time. The internet has almost everything. That is the problem. Young students do not have the experience or the wisdom to discern what information is likely be accurate or, more importantly, appropriate. Therefore, we have been practicing getting information from traditional reference materials. The skills of locating information, reading, digesting what has been read, and choosing appropriate information will be necessary even when using the internet, at least until they get a wire to tape on your forehead and just transfer the information into your brain.
Third graders have been working on the arrangement of materials in the library. They will be working on using guide words.
Fourth graders have been practicing with encyclopedia articles, dictionaries, and atlases.
Fifth graders have been using almanacs. They are filled with information. The trick is finding what you want to know. Practice with almanacs develops skills for using many other resources.
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