Research Skills
You could use this to find the definition of a word.
What is a dictionary?
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?
School policy to carry this with you. It is needed in the library to check out a book.
What is an ID card?
Stories made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
You use this book to find synonyms for a word.
What is a thesaurus?
Lists all the chapters in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the Table of Contents?
A narrow, horizontal space in the window of a web browser that is used to display the address of a website.
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?
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Non-Fiction?
Set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
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?
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?
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 an Atlas?
The part of a textbook 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?
The name of RMMS online catalog for the library. 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 Destiny Discover?
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?
An annual reference book of useful and interesting facts relating to countries of the world, sports,entertainment, etc.
What is an Almanac?
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 Hyperlink?
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?