From the former CTAP 4 Information Literacy Website...

Three Types of Searching

This simple graphic lists the three types of searching covered. The chart relates each type to the amount of scaffolding it provides.

Files: Three types (.doc)

Indexes, Directories, Search Engines

This Internet hotlist on Internet searching has a great list of searching resources for the classroom teacher.
Files:  http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listinternetja5.html

From the former CTAP 4 Information Literacy Website...

Determining Appropriate Reading Level

These documents guide you through the process of using Microsoft Word to find reading Flesch-Kincaid reading levels of passages. It also explains how to access the Lexile Levels Online service to determine the appropriate reading level on that scale.
Determining Reading levels (.doc) (Flesch-Kincaid); Determining Lexile Levels (.doc) (lexile levels)

From the former CTAP 4 Information Literacy Website...

Technology strategies for note taking

This guide suggests bothlow-tech and high-tech strategies for using technology to teach students to effectively take notes.
Note Taking Guide (.doc)

Questioning Note Chart

This student sheet allows students to organize the information they find on their researchable questions. By placing the three researchable questions in the top row of the chart, students will be able add information they find below in each column. The general note chart is designed to record information when students are taking notes about a specific source, not notes about a question. Finally, the GIST note chart helps students take notes on a single source when they are using the GIST method of taking notes.
Note taking chart (.doc); Note taking chart source (.doc); Note taking Chart GIST (.doc)