Book Parts
The part of the book that has the title, author's name, and illustration.
The front cover.
Who is the author?
The person who writes the words of the story.
Name one thing a dictionary is used for.
To find a word's definition.
What kind of book is the Cat in the Hat?
fiction
On a spine label, the "E" on the top means the book belongs in which section?
The easy or everyone section.
What is the part of the book that faces out on the shelf?
The spine.
What does the illustrator do?
Draws the pictures.
Does a dictionary tell you how to say or pronounce the word? Yes or no.
Yes.
What type of book is "How to Take Care of your pet Cat?"
Nonfiction
What order are Easy and Fiction books put on the shelf?
Alphabetical order by the author's last name.
What is the part of the book that has a summary of the book and the bar code?
The back cover.
These are tools authors and illustrators use.
What are pencils, pens, computers, crayons, paints, and paper.
Words can have more than one meaning in a dictionary. True or false?
True
What type of book would you use to prove facts about an event in history?
A non-fiction book.
If a spine label had numbers and the first three letters of the author's name, would it be fiction or non-fiction?
Non-fiction.
What is the table of contents?
The page telling the chapters in a book and the page they start on.
This person prints the book and makes it available for sale.
Who is the publisher?
In what order are the words in a dictionary?
Alphabetical
A book that is a made up story is fiction. True or false?
True.
In what order are nonfiction books put on the shelf?
Number order according to the Dewey Decimal system.
This part of the book keeps the pages safe.
What is a book's cover?
How does an author avoid plagiarism?
The author gives credit for information he or she finds in other sources. This is called "works cited".
In a dictionary, would the word catch be between can and car, or between can and cats?
Between can and cats.
This type of book usually has a table of contents in the front, and an index in the back.
Nonfiction
In the "Easy" section, a book by Laura Numeroff would go on what shelf?
What is the "N" shelf.