Research Skills
Parts of a Book
Internet Smarts
Genres
This and That
100
You can use this book to find definitions.
What is the dictionary?
100
This identifies 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?
100
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the scroll bar?
100
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is fiction?
100
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?
200
You can use this book to find a synonym of a word.
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 web.
What is the Address Bar?
200
Books that deals with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is nonfiction?
200
A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
What is the Topic Sentence?
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
An online journal that allows readers to respond and comment.
What is a blog?
300
Books that are created using a combination of pictures and text to tell the story.
What is a graphic novel?
300
This is the method for organizing the fiction books in the library.
What is Alphabetical Order?
400
This is a book that has a collection of maps. This book also contains information about the land, longitude and latitude, crops and the population of an area.
What is an atlas?
400
The part of a book that would list the meaning of a word.
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
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?
400
If you use a website to download all of the latest songs on the radio and do not pay for it, this is a violation of what law?
What is Copyright?
500
An organized collection of related data, generally found in a computer.
What is a database?
500
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is the 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
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is Historical Fiction?
500
This is a list of books, articles, and other sources you use when researching a topic.
What is a Bibliography?
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