AASL Standards for the 21st Century LearnerInformation Fluency Continuum
The Information Fluency Continuum provides a framework for the instructional aspects of a library program. The framework is based on three standards that form the basis for the skills and strategies that are essential for students to become independent readers and learners.
Grade-by-Grade Information Skills K-12
Inquiry is an essence of teaching and learning that empowers students to follow their sense of wonder into new discoveries and insights about the way the world works. The empowered learner calls upon information/inquiry skills to connect with what he or she knows, ask intriguing questions about what is not known, investigate the answers, construct new understandings, and communicate to share those understandings with others.
The information fluency skills required for in-depth learning must follow a coherent development continuum of instruction and practice throughout the years of schooling, K–12 and beyond, to enable all of our children to become independent learners.
Information Skills Grade K
Information Skills Grade 1
Information Skills Grade 2
Information Skills Grade 3
Information Skills Grade 4
Information Skills Grade 5
Information Skills Grade 6
Information Skills Grade 7
Information Skills Grade 8
Information Skills Grade 9
Information Skills Grade 10
Information Skills Grade 11
Information Skills Grade 12
Exit Benchmark Skills Grades 2, 5, 8, and 12
Priority Benchmark Skills Grades K-12