Genres
Parts of a Book
Reseach Skills
Finding Books
Internet Smarts
100
This genre tells about a real person. Someone else the story of this person's life.
What is Biography?
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
You could use this to find the definition of the word, like archaeologists.
What is the dictionary?
100
The F stands for this when looking at the spine of a book.
What is Fiction?
100
This portal on the school website allows you to look up books by titles, authors, series and key words.
What is Destiny?
200
A story in which there is a problem that needs to be solved. Many times, there is a spy or detective who uses to clues to help crack/solve the case.
What is Mystery?
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
You use this book to find a synonym for the word, like abandoned.
What is the thesaurus?
200
The E stands for this when looking at the spine of a book.
What is Everyone or Easy?
200
This school supported website and app enables you to download eBooks for free.
What is MackinVIA?
300
This genre uses real life events, but the characters are made up.
What is Realistic Fiction?
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
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in alphabetical order.
What are the encyclopedias?
300
The three letters on the spine of a book represent this.
What is the first three letters of the author's last name?
300
A network of millions of computers from all over the world. This allows computers all over the world to trade information.
What is the Internet or World Wide Web?
400
In this genre, the characters of the story are made up. However, the setting really existed in the past.
What is Historical Fiction?
400
The part of a textbook that might list the meaning of a word.
What is the glossary?
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 the Atlas?
400
Sometimes the spines of books have numbers instead of letters. This is the genre of these books.
What is nonfiction or informational?
400
This is being safe when using the Internet. Do not give out personal information or go to websites without your parent or guardian's permission.
What is Internet Safety?
500
This is a fiction story that generally contains magic. The characters do things that wouldn't really happen in real life. There may also be creatures in the story that do not really exist in real life.
What is Fantasy?
500
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items that are usually found at the end of a book.
What is the index?
500
This is a book of facts that is published each year containing miscellaneous information.
What is the Almanac?
500
The system that organizes the numbers of the nonfiction/informational books is called this.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
500
An image or portion of text that when clicked takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a Hyperlink?
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