Leesa Aiken - Careers in Public Librarianship | SC State Library

Leesa Aiken, the Director of the South Carolina State Library, explains what services are offered. She provides background information on how to become a librarian and encourages students to pursue a career path in the public library system.  

Leesa also shares tips on how to encourage children to develop a love for reading.

Standards

• Grade 2: Use and apply knowledge of how inflectional endings change words.
  • Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
    • RI.LCS.10 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose and perspective shapes content, meaning, and style.
  • Grade 2: Make predictions before and during reading; confirm or modify thinking.
    • RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
    • RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
• Grade 2: Make predictions before and during reading; confirm or modify thinking.
  • Grade 5: Acquire and use general academic and domain specific words or phrases that signal contrast, addition, and logical relationships; demonstrate and understanding of nuances and jargon.
    • RI.LCS.10 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose or perspective shapes content, meaning, and style.
  • RI.MC Meaning and Context
    • RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
    • RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.