Book Selection
Library Lingo
Book Care
Library Procedures
Surprise!
100
Books with an "E" on their spine label belong in this section of the library
What is the EASY Section?
100
This is the part of the book that you see when a book is on the shelf.
What is the spine?
100
This is where you should keep your books at home so they are safe.
What is your backpack?
100
This is what you use to hold a place on the shelf while you look at a book.
What is a shelf marker?
100
This is what you call a person who draws pictures for a book.
What is the illustrator?
200
This is how many Virginia Reader's Choice books you can check out at one time.
What is one?
200
These are the kind of books that you can find in the non-fiction section.
What are informational, factual or true books?
200
This is what you should use to save your place in a book.
What is a bookmark?
200
This is how many books you can check out at one time.
What is 2?
200
This type of book has characters, a setting, and a plot.
What is fiction?
300
This is how you can find out if a book is already checked out of the library.
What is looking in the online catalog?
300
These are the kind of books that you would find in the FIC - Fiction Section.
What are chapter books, stories that are made up and that have few pictures?
300
This is what you should keep your books away from at home.
What are baby brothers or sisters, pets, food, drink?
300
This is what you should do if you hear any adult in the building clap a pattern?
What is clap the pattern and be quiet?
300
This is how many students can visit from your class during open check-out at one time.
What is two?
400
This is the icon that you have to click on our computers to look for books in our library.
What is the OPAC icon?
400
These are four things that you can find on the title page of a book.
What are the title, author, illustrator, and publisher?
400
This is how you should turn the pages of a book.
What is slowly, carefully from the corner?
400
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?
400
This is the rule you should follow when selecting a 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?
500
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?
500
This is what you call the number and/or letters on the spine label of a book.
What is the Call Number of the book?
500
This is what you should NEVER do around your books.
What is eat or drink?
500
These are 3 kinds of library materials that students CAN NOT checkout.
What is magazines, encyclopedias, videos, atlases, dictionaries, teacher-reserved books.
500
This is when you can visit the library.
What is... whenever your teacher says so!
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