Research Skills
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
This is the page where you will find the name of the book, its author, illustrator and publishing company.
What is the Title Page?
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the Scroll Bar?
This is how to be sure that a book is "just right" for you.
What is the five finger rule?
Fiction books, separated by age level, are shelved in this order.
What is alphabetical order by the author's last name?
You use this book to find a synonym for the word abandoned.
What is a thesaurus?
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the Table of Contents?
This is where you would type in the URL of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar?
This is a category used to distinguish between different types of literature (or music).
What is a genre?
You should use this tool to make sure that books get put back in the correct place.
What is a shelfmarker?
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics, with the topics listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is usually 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?
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?
If you don't know exactly where a book belongs, this is the best place to leave it.
What is the cart by the front desk?
A book that has a collection of maps, containing 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 a word.
What is the glossary?
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
What is a Search Engine?
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?
Use this to find the location of a specific book in the library.
What is the library catalog?
This kind of book is not meant to be read from beginning to end, but used as needed to find a specific piece of information.
What is a reference book?
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items that is 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 word that mimics a sound. Example: Buzz!
What is Onomatopoeia?
This is the address of a book within the library, found on a book's spine label.
What is the call number?