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Year 2 - Module 1
•Before launching into the Year 2 modules it is essential that you review the previous learningwith your class to ensure they are ready to move on. This also gives you an opportunity tocater for new students to your class. This may take several sessions.•Ensure your students have a clear understanding of the following before moving on (refer Year 1 modules for further details):•Areas in our library•Use of the browsing cards•Making wise book selections and caring for books•How to have their book issued•Parts of a book (title, author, illustrator, spine, blurb, table of contents, index, pagenumbering)•Early understanding of alphabetical ordering•The role of the author and illustrator •Refer to the ‘Keeping Our Library Tidy’ chart on the wall. Discuss and demonstrate thetidying process for the areas on the list. Please select appropriate areas for students in your class to take responsibility for and assist them in doing a quality job.•Students may take on these tasks individually or in pairs.•You may wish to laminate your own copy of the chart to use as your class reference list.•Review the process with your class and set goals for your next visit to the library.
Review
 
Year 2 - Module 2
This module is designed to strengthen students understanding of the different parts of the library and what resources they will find there.Resource preparation required.
•Seat the class on the mat area and ask them to help you list all the different parts of thelibrary. Eg: picture books, issue desk, magazines etc.•You may need to add to the list for the students so that the list includes:•Fiction books•Non fiction books•Issue desk•Computers•Picture books•Non fiction picture books•Junior non fiction•Magazines•New books•Audio visual resources•Reference section•Discuss with the class what each resource is and why it would be used eg:•Fiction is the name given to story books of all kinds. Fiction means something that ismade up from imagination.•Non-fiction is the name given to books about real people, places and things.•Have the class work individually, in pairs or groups to colour in a map of the library using a colour code. As you discuss each area ask the students to locate and colour that area in on their map.•Introduce the Library staff to the class. Many of the students will have worked with them in the past,but it is of value to review their roles with the class.
Further reference:
•'Using the Library' (Book 1: page 9, What am I?)•'Using the Library' (Book 1: page 5, In our library)•'Using the Library' (Book 1: pages 30 / 31, Fiction or non fiction?)•'Enjoying the Library' (Level 3: page 2)
Building On: About Our Library 
 
Year 2 - Module 3
This module will review the previously taught skills and will strengthen the students ability to order booksalphabetically.
•Have the class sit on the mat area with the library books they are about to return.•Ask the class if they can remember how to find the right place in our library when you areputting a book away. They may tell you to look for your browsing card or to use the letters of the alphabet.•Let the class know that they have been using the library so carefully that today they will be ableto put their own books back on the shelf once they have been checked by the librarian.•Split the class into smaller groups and have the Library staff assist you to work through thefollowing activity.
Activity
•Take books to the issue desk for the librarian to return (scan) into the computer. Explain to thestudents that the computer will know that the book is back in the library for others to borrownow.•Sit down together and discuss / model finding the authors name, identifying the first letter of their last / surname.•Play the alphabetical order game noted in Year 1 Module 8.•Assist each student in locating the correct place and returning the book to the shelf.•Review the correct process for using the browsing cards.•Collect a browsing card and quietly select a new book to issue and take home.
Building On: Alphabetical Order
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