Looking for Books
Text Features
More Text Features
Evaluating Resources
Potential Sources
100
These are words that are main topics in a book.
What are keywords?
100
These help us find information faster and better understand the text.
What are text features?
100
This is an alphabetical list of words and their meanings, usually found at the back of a book.
What is a glossary?
100
This refers to when a source was published or updated.
What is timeliness?
100
These are print resources that provide facts about a topic.
What are nonfiction books?
200
This is the name of the library that I should select when searching for books at our school.
What is Jackson MS?
200
This is a list of chapters and their page numbers.
What is a table of contents?
200
This is an alphabetical list of topics and their page numbers, usually found at the back of a book.
What is an index?
200
This is how well a source relates to the information needed.
What is relevance?
200
These sources are on the internet and can be found with a Google search.
What are websites?
300
These books are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name and are stories that are not real.
What are fiction books?
300
These are found throughout a source and help readers understand the text.
What are pictures/graphics?
300
These point to parts of a picture or graphic and help readers understand the picture or graphic.
What are labels?
300
This refers to accuracy of the information provided by a source.
What is reliability?
300
These search a collection of different types of electronic resources to provide reliable sources of information on a topic.
What are electronic databases?
400
These books are arranged by a Dewey Decimal number and organized by topic. They are mostly fact books.
What nonfiction books?
400
These are words that are darker and more noticeable than the rest of the text.
What bold words?
400
These are titles of subtopics found within a chapter.
What are headings?
400
This refers to whether or not an author is qualified to present accurate information on a topic.
What is author authority?
400
Choose the best source for a research project on Lionel Messi: ~A Lionel Messi fan page where Messi fans post comments about him. The most recent post is from January 2017. ~An article from Biography.com about the life of Lionel Messi, last updated January 2017.
What is the Biography.com article about the life of Lionel Messi?
500
This is what we use on the computer to search for books in a library.
What is the search catalog?
500
This shows shows a sequence of events in chronological (time) order.
What is a timeline?
500
These briefly describe or explain an photo or graphic. They are frequently found directly below the image.
What are captions?
500
This is the reason why an author publishes information.
What is the author's purpose?
500
Choose the best book to gather information about immigrating to the United States: ~Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs F HOB ~Undocumented Immigrants by Sara Howell 364.137 HOW
What is Undocumented Immigrants by Sara Howell 364.137 HOW?
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