Research Skills
Parts of a Book
Dewey Decimal System
Hodge Podge
Genres
100
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
100
This names the title of the book. It also tells who wrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.
What is the Title Page?
100
In what section would you find a book about the way people think?
100s
100
A pair of words at the top of a page. All of the words included on that page are between the two words in alphabetical order.
What are Guide Words?
100
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
200
You use this book to find a synonym for the word abandoned.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the Table of Contents?
200
Where would you find a book of poems?
800s
200
This is to steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as your own. Be careful not to do this when you are doing research!
What is Plagiarism?
200
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Nonfiction?
300
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
300
We talked about the 400s section that covers "How we communicate." Name one type of book in that section?
Any of the following: Books on language, grammar, idioms, Spanish-English dictionaries
300
Being safe when using the internet. Do not give out personal information or go to websites without your parent or guardians permission.
What is Internet Safety?
300
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
What is a Mystery?
400
A book that has a collection of maps? This book also contains information about the land, crops and the population of an area.
What is an Atlas?
400
The part of a textbook that might list the meaning of the word temple?
What is the glossary?
400
What's the difference between the animal books in the 500s and the 600s?
Animal books in the 500s are about wild animals, 600s are about domesticated animals. 500s - Natural Science 600s - Applied Science
400
The name of OTS's online catalog for the library. I can use this to check if a book is available and see all of the information I might need to know about that book.
What is OPAC or Destiny?
400
A non-fiction book about a real persons life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
500
This is a book of facts that is published each year containing miscellaneous information.
What is an Almanac?
500
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
500
What fits into the 000-099 section?
Anything that doesn't fit into 100-999!!!
500
What does OPAC stand for?
Online Public Access Catalog.
500
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?
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