Reference Materials
Sections of the Media Center
Genres
Spine Labels
Grab Bag
100
Reference material that is best to find out the capital of Texas. Atlas/Map, Dictionary, or Encyclopedia?
What is Atlas/Map?
100
A book from our media center that might have animals talking in it is a ______ book. Hint: Fiction or Non-Fiction
What is 'fiction'?
100
True or False, poems HAVE to rhyme.
What is ‘false’?
100
"E" on spine labels in our media center stands for:
What is "Everybody"?
100
Which word comes first in a dictionary, apple or dog?
What is apple?
200
One reason we use a dictionary.
What is to find out how to spell a word or find out the definition of a word?
200
The story "Wilma, Unlimited" was a true story. What section of the media center is it from...
What is non-fiction?
200
True of False, poems can be songs.
What is ‘true’?
200
ICR in our media center stands for ______
What is I Can Read?
200
A green dot on the spine of an ICR book means__________.
What is a "beginning chapter book".
300
How words in a dictionary are organized.
What is alphabetical?
300
True or false, poems can be made into picture storybooks, or Everybody books.
What is ‘true’?
300
‘F’ on a spine label in our media center means:
What is "Fiction" chapter books?
300
An author’s job.
What is write the book or story?
400
“REF” on a spine label in our media center means:
What is 'reference'?
400
Give 1 of the 4 clues we learned that tell us a book in our media center is non-fiction.
What is realistic pictures, numbers on the spine label, facts (true information), and animals do NOT talk?
400
A book written about someone else's life.
What is a biography?
400
Numbers on the spine label mean the book is from this section of the media center.
What is non-fiction?
400
An illustrator's job.
What is to draw and color pictures for a story or book?
500
If I needed true information about something for a report, I would use which reference material; a dictionary or encyclopedia.
What is an encyclopedia?
500
Different genres we find in our media center.
What is Historical fiction, science fiction, adventure, mystery, jokes, poetry, suspense, animal story, realistic fiction
500
A book written by someone about their own life.
What is an autobiography?
500
In our media center, the letters on a spine label underneath the E, F, ICR, or numbers on the spine label stand for:
What are the first letters in the author's last name?
500
Something our visiting author, Tim Kehoe, invented.
What is 'colored bubbles'?
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