Book Selection
Library Lingo
Book Care
Library Procedures
Surprise!
100
Books with an "E" on their spine label belong in this section of the library
What is the picture books section?
100
This is the part of the book that you see when a book is on the shelf.
What is the spine?
100
This is where you should keep your books at home.
What is your backpack or someplace safe (and dry!)?
100
It's what to do with a book you decided not to check out, after all.
What is give it back to Mrs. Francis? (don't just stick it on a shelf somewhere!)
100
This is what you call a person who draws pictures for a book.
What is the illustrator?
200
Books with "FIC" on the spine label belong in this section of the library.
What is the fiction section?
200
An informational, factual, or true book.
What is non-fiction?
200
What you should use to save your place in a book.
What is a bookmark? Never turn down the corner of a page of a book - YIKES!!!
200
This is how many books you can usually check out at one time.
What is 2?
200
The award given each year to the best children's book.
What is the Newbery award?
300
This is how you can tell if a book is already checked out of the library - in the computer catalog.
What is: the catalog will say "0 out of 1 available"?
300
These books have chapters and made-up stories.
What is fiction?
300
This is what you should keep your books away from at home.
What is younger siblings, pets, food, and liquids.
300
Read quietly to yourself.
What should you do after checking out your books?
300
The first one of these was "askew."
What is the Word of the Week?
400
Where you find true stories about real people's lives.
What is the biography section?
400
This the first page of a book.
What is the title page?
400
It's how long you have to keep a book you've checked out.
What is a week?
400
This is expected behavior during story time.
What is sit criss-cross applesauce on the reading rug and listen quietly?
400
This is the rule you should follow when selecting a book - you read a page in a book and see if there are 5 words you can't say or don't understand.
What is the Five-Finger Rule?
500
It is how you can tell if a book is from the Non-Fiction Section (just by looking at the call number on the spine label).
What is: there are actual numbers on the spine label?
500
It is the book's "address," telling you where to find the book in the library.
What is the call number?
500
It's what you do if you haven't yet finished reading a book that is due.
What is ask, "Can you please renew it"?
500
These are library materials that students cannot check out.
What are teacher reference books?
500
DDS stands for ____ Decimal System, and those are the numbers that help categorize non-fiction books.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
M
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u