A list of chapters or sections in a book and their page numbers.
What is the table of contents?
100
You are reading a fiction book and run across the work precipice. You would turn to this source to find out what it means.
What is a dictionary?
100
These are found at the top of the pages in some reference sources. They are the first word and the last word found on that page(s). Their purpose is to help you find the word for which you are looking.
What are guide words?
100
This is when your library books need to be returned.
What is the due date?
200
This reference set can be used to get information about a topic to use in a report or project.
What is an encyclopedia?
200
When reading a book you would look here to find out what an unfamiliar word means.
What is a glossary?
200
Your teacher has told you that you used the word "went" too much in your story. You would look here to find other words for "went."
What is a thesaurus?
200
Found in a dictionary, this tells you how to pronounce a word.
What is the pronunciation key?
200
There is a book you really want to read but someone else has it checked out. You can ask the librarian to place this on the book, so that when it is returned you will be first in line to check it out.
What is a hold?
300
You may use this reference source when searching for a better or more descriptive word in your writing.
What is a thesaurus?
300
Found in the back of a book, this is a list of words and the page numbers where the words can be found.
What is the index?
300
You need to determine how far Colorado is from the nation's capital. This the best print reference source to help with that problem.
What is the Atlas?
300
adj. n. adv. v. are all examples of these.
What are parts of speech?
300
You do this when you want to keep a book after the date of return because you need to finish reading it.
What is renew? What is a renewal?
400
This reference source is essentially a book of maps.
What is an Atlas?
400
The words in the index are listed in this order.
What is alphabetical order?
400
You need to write a report about President Abraham Lincoln. This print reference source would be the best starting point.
What is the encyclopedia?
400
This is a sentence or two that tells about a picture.
What is a caption?
400
Show this to Mrs. Bruner so she can check out your book on the computer.
What is a barcode?
500
This reference source is published every year and tells what happened in entertainment, politics and sports the year before.
What is an almanac?
500
Titles in the table of contents are in this order.
What is the order in which they appear? What is sequence?
500
You would use this print source to find out who won the Men's 50 meter freestyle during the 2008 Olympics.
What is an almanac?
500
Words highlighted in this typeface are often the ones you can find in a book's glossary.
What is boldface?
500
You may have to do this to an e-book you borrow before you can read it.
What is download? What is download to your device?