Book Selection
Books with an "E" on their spine label belong in this section of the library
What is the EASY Section?
This is the part of the book that you see when a book is on the shelf.
What is the Spine?
This is where you should keep your books at home so they are safe.
What is your backpack or someplace high (and dry!).
This is what you use to hold a place on the shelf while you look at a book.
What is a shelf marker?
This is what you call a person who draws pictures for a book.
What is the illustrator?
Books with "FIC" on the spine label belong in this section of the library.
What is the Fiction Section.
These are the kind of books that you can find in the non-fiction section. (HINT: what do they contain?)
What are informational, factual or true books.
This is what you should use to save your place in a book.
What is a bookmark?
This is how many books you can check out at one time.
What is 2?
This is the author of "Horton Hears a Who"
Who is Dr. Seuss?
This is how you can find out if a book is checked out.
What is ....ask Mrs. S .
These are the kind of books that you would find in the FIC - Fiction Section (be careful....how is this different than the "E" section?)
What are chapter books, stories that are made up and that have very few pictures?
This is what you should keep your books away from at home.
What is baby brothers or sisters, pets, food, drink.
This is what you should do when you have a question, but Mrs. S (or any other teacher) is talking.
What is raise your hand?
This is what SSR stands for.
What is Silent Sustained Reading?
This is how we put the books back after looking at them in library.
What is spine out and right side up?
These are three things that you can find on the title page of a book.
What are the: Title Author Illustrator Publisher (non-picture books)
This is how you should turn the pages of a book.
What is slowly, carefully from the corner. What happens if you turn a page from the side of a page? IT MIGHT RIP!! :(
This is where we sit during read-aloud story time.
What is on the floor with our legs crossed in front of our story-reader?
This is the rule you should follow when selecting a "just right" book - you read a page in a book and see if there are 5 words you can't say or don't understand.
What is the Five-Finger Rule?
This is how you can tell if a book is from the Non-Fiction Section (just by looking at the spine label)
What is ...there are numbers on the spine label?
This is what you call the number and/or letters on the spine label of a book (it's like the book's address)
What is the Call Number of the book - it's called Call Number even if it doesn't contain any Numbers.
This is what you should NEVER do around your books.
What is eat or drink?
This is what happens when you do not return books you have already checked out. (2 parts to the answer)
What is I can't check anymore out until they are returned and I could be charged a fine?
These are the names of 2 awards given to books each year.
What is Newberry and Caldecott awards?