Research Skills
Parts of a Book
Internet Smarts
Finding Books
Genres
100
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
100
This names the title of the book. It also tells who qrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.
What is the Title Page?
100
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the Scroll Bar?
100
What you would search by in a search box if you were looking for a book by Rick Riordan (subject, author, title, or keyword).
What is the author?
100
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
200
You use this book to find a synonym for the word abandoned.
What is a thesaurus?
200
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?
200
This shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar?
200
From a school computer, what you would click on FIRST in the launcher to find our online catalog.
What is library services?
200
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Non-Fiction?
300
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
300
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?
300
Once in Library Services from the launcher, what you would click on to enter our catalog.
What is Destiny?
300
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?
400
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?
400
The part of a textbook that might list the meaning of the word temple?
What is the glossary?
400
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
What is a Search Engine?
400
How fiction and easy books are organized.
What is alphabetically by author's last name?
400
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?
500
This is a book of facts that is published each year containing miscellaneous information.
What is an Almanac?
500
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
500
An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a Hyperlink?
500
How non-fiction books are organized.
What is by subject?
500
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?
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