Ross Elementary Library
All students at Ross visit the library with their class once per week for a lesson focused on literature or digital citizenship and book checkout. Students learn how to checkout their own books, search for books, conduct research and participate in Maker activities. Our K-5 students will also be participating in the Common Sense Digital Media curriculum and Junior Great Books. You can read more about these programs here.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digitalcitizenshipweek/home
https://www.greatbooks.org/junior-great-books-k-5/
Families can search for titles available in the Ross Library and also check out our collection of ebooks. Here is how to access our collection:
- Go to dcps.follettdestiny.com
- Select “Elementary Schools”
- Select “Ross ES”
- Click “Catalog”
- Enter the title you are searching
- Use your student ID and birthdate to access ebooks
PK4 Learning Activities
- Sit and listen to a story
- Retell a story
- Identify the cover, title page and back cover of a book
- Talk about favorite characters and authors
K1 Learning Activities
- Retell familiar stories including key details
- Identify characters, setting and major events in a story
- Identify and rhyming words
- Describe relationships between illustrations and text
- Actively engage in group reading activities
- Know and use various text features
- Ask and answer questions to help clarify meaning
- Identify basic similarities and differences between two separate texts on the same topic
2nd Grade Learning Activities
- Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and howto demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters
- Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
- Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
3rd Grade Learning Activities
- Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
- Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
- Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
- Take brief notes from digital and text sources.
4th Grade Learning Activities
- Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose when writing or speaking about a text.
- Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
5th Grade Learning Activities
- Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges, summarize the text.
- Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
- Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
