Research Skills
What kind of things would you use for finding information?
What are informational books and websites. (magazines)
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?
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the Scroll Bar?
A pair of words at the top of a page. All of the words included on that page are between the two words in alphabetical order.
What are Guide Words?
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
What do you do with the information you are reading from different sources?
What is taking notes
This shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar?
This is to steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as your own. Be careful not to do this when you are doing research!
What is Plagiarism?
What words do you use to start your search for research?
What is topic or keywords
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
Being safe when using the internet. Do not give out personal information or go to websites without your parent or guardians permission.
What is Internet Safety?
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
What is a Mystery?
What are the different sources (called) that have been used for research this year in library?
What is print and digital resources
The part of a book that might list the meaning of the word temple?
What is the glossary?
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
What is a Search Engine?
I can use this to check if a book is available and see all of the information I might need to know about that book.
What is the Online Catalog?
A non-fiction book about a real persons life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
How do you give credit to an author or source of information gathered?
What is citing your sources
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a link?
When an author uses words in their writing to mimic sounds. It appeals to the sense of hearing and brings a description to life. Example: Buzzzzz!
What is Onomatopoeia?
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?