Publications

Written and edited by UCLA Lab School faculty, these publications are based on our Critical Thinking and Early Literacy Institutes. To order copies, call 310.825-1801. Costs include taxes and shipping.

Managing Information in a Digital Age

This comprehensive guidebook presents the process and essential skills for embedding information literacy strategies across all areas of the elementary through high school curriculum. The curriculum is divided into seven areas: questioning, identifying and collecting, evaluating, sense making, reflecting and refining, using, and assessing. The methods promote the skills, knowledge and attitudes that will help students develop effective lifelong information awareness, seeking, management and presentation strategies. Three-ring binder: $35

Early Literacy Skills Development: Guiding Principles for Helping Young Children Become Smart, Skilled and Passionate Readers and Writers

This full-color, easy-to-follow guide offers practical advice for helping young children of diverse backgrounds become lifelong readers and writers. Written by UCLA Lab School demonstration teachers, the guide identifies essential principles that form the foundation of an effective literacy program and gives examples of how these principles are implemented in the classroom. These teaching practices consistently enable children to achieve or exceed state and national language arts standards. Spiral-bound, 26-pages: $10