🔎 Research Skills
This is what you type into the search bar to help find information.
What is a keyword?
This is a thicker book with a story in it. It will have characters, a setting, and a plot.
What is fiction?
This genre of fiction will have characters, settings and plot that are similar to real life. Nothing magical happens.
What is realistic fiction?
You should never share this kind of information online.
What is personal information?
This is the part of the book that tells you who wrote it.
What is the author?
This is a special tool in the library catalog that helps you find books.
What is a subject or title search?
This book will have information about any topic in it. The topic could be aliens, bigfoot, UFOs, or science, animals, or things about the world.
What is nonfiction?
This genre of fiction will have magical elements, and fantastical plots and settings.
What is fantasy?
This is what you should do if something online makes you uncomfortable.
What is tell a trusted adult?
Fiction books are arranged on the shelf by this.
What is the author’s last name?
These are the books you use to learn true facts.
What are nonfiction books?
This is one way to tell if a book is nonfiction.
What is check the cover for photographs, true information, diagrams, captions, index, glossary, and call number.
This type of writing often uses rhythm, rhyme, and descriptive language to express ideas and feelings.
What is poetry?
Being kind and respectful online is part of being a good what?
What is a digital citizen?
This is the number system we use to organize nonfiction books.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
You should use more than one source to do this.
What is check for accuracy?
This section of the library has books with information about a topic organized by a number system.
What is the nonfiction section?
What is a biography?
This is what you should do if you want to use someone else’s work.
What is give credit or cite it?
These are the numbers and letters on a book’s spine.
What is the call number?
This is the name of our library’s online catalog.
What is OPALS?
This is what fiction and nonfiction have in common.
What is learning something new, help us enjoy reading, and have pictures, chapters, and pages.
This type of book will have readers noticing clues and trying to solve the ending to the story.
What is a mystery?
This is the trail of everything you do online.
What is your digital footprint?
This is the desk where Mrs. B or Mrs. Stanton checks out your book.
What is the circulation desk?