Learning Skills: Organization

The Ontario Government has identified and targeted six key learning skills for student success. Libraries can help teachers and students to understand and develop these skills by providing picture books that model these behaviours and the issues surrounding them.

Learning Skills and Work Habits Sample Behaviours: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self Regulation.

 The student:
• devises and follows a plan and process for completing work and tasks;
• establishes priorities and manages time to complete tasks and achieve goals;
• identifies, gathers, evaluates, and uses information, technology, and resources to complete tasks.

When Ike LaRue is "imprisoned" at the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy, he tries everything to get sent home--weepy letters to his owner, even illness. In reality, Brotweiler is more like camp than prison, but still, Ike's not cut out for life w/o Mrs. LaRue; his creature comforts. Finally, he runs away only to find himself back in Snort City--just in time to save Mrs. LaRue's life.





Farmer Brown has a problem.

His cows like to type.
All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.

But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....

Title

Author

The mysteries of Harris Burdick	Chris Van Allsburg
The Paper Boy	Dave Pilkey
Tuesday	David Wiesner
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type	Doreen Cronin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle
Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett	Jan Brett
Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viors
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	Laura Numeroff
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak
How I Became a Pirate	Melinda Long
Koala Lou	Mem Fox
The Legend of the Bluebonnet	Tomie dePaola
A Chair for My Mother	Vera B. William