Research Skills
Parts of a Book
Library Smarts
Hodge Podge
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

The number of library books you may check out of the library in sixth grade.

What is two books?

100

Any chapter book you read this year.

(Any fiction book will do.)

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

The number of weeks you may keep a book checked out before you need to renew it.

What is two weeks?

200

This is another name for the information book section of the library.

What is non-fiction?

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
They're the adjectives used to describe your voice and your feet in the library.
What are "quiet" and "walking"?
300

Name two different ways you could search for a library book in the online library catalog.

Could be "author", "title", "subject" or "key word".

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
It's the library term for the online program that allows you to look for any book in the library.
What is the library catalog?
400

The kind of book that tells you about a famous person's life.

What is a biography?

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
It's the name of the numerical system used to organize non-fiction (information) books in the library.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
500

Go to the information (non-fiction) part of the library, find the books in the 599.5 section, and name the subjects of those books.

What are whales and dolphins?

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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