Outside the Book
The ___________ is the paragraph on the back outside cover of the book.
What is summary (or synopsis) on the back.
These words explain what is happening in a photograph.
What is a caption?
This is a picture that shows the location of things or places.
What is a map?
A picture showing where penguins live.
What is a map?
Tells the topic of the text and what the reader will learn about.
What is title?
This calls attention to new and important words that readers should pay attention to.
What is bold print?
It shows information in a visual way using numbers or data to make it easy to understand.
What is a graph?
A labeled picture showing the inside parts of a camera.
What is a diagram?
This is what we call the person who wrote the book.
What is the author?
A picture made with a camera that shows how things look in real life.
What is a photograph?
Extinct - no longer in existence
What is glossary?
This is the person who drew the pictures in the book.
What is the illustrator?
If you wanted to know if a book about snakes talked about its habitat, you could look at this section in the BACK of the book to find out.
What is the index?
This shows how the book is organize and helps the reader find information quickly.
What is Table of Contents?
This is a drawing that shows the parts of something and labels them to help explain how it works.
What is a diagram?
A scientist examines a mammoth skeleton at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota.
What is a caption?
Why would you want to read the synopsis on the back of the book before reading a story?
What is because it can help you know what the story is going to be about and you can tell if it is going to be a good fit book?
This page includes more information about the person who wrote the book?
What is the About the Author page?
This tells the reader what the section of text is mostly about.
What is Heading/
This is slanted text that identifies new or important words.
What is italic print?
Chapter 3 Studying Mammoths.....pg. 19
What is the table of contents?