Research Skills
You could use this to find the definition of a word.
What is a dictionary?
This provides the name of the book, the author, and illustrator. It even gives the name of the company that published the book.
What is the title page?
What are the 5 Ws of website evaluation? (Who, What, Where, When, Would?)
To steal or take credit for words or ideas that aren't your own. Be careful not to do this when you are doing research!
What is plagiarism?
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is fiction?
Nope, this isn't a dinosaur! It's the book you use to find a synonym for a word.
What is a thesaurus?
This lists all the chapters in a book, and on which page each chapter begins.
What is the table of contents?
This is another name for a web address.
What is URL?
You can do this when you're not finished with a library book and would like to get it again.
What is renew?
Writing that provides facts, information, and true events rather than the imagination.
What is nonfiction?
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics, which are listed in alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
This is the date or year in which is a book was published. (Hint: you should include it in your citations on a bibliography.)
What is the copyright date?
A program that searches information on the internet by looking for keywords. Google is an example of this.
What is a search engine?
This is a library book's address, written on the white sticker at the bottom of the spine.
What is the call number?
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
What is mystery?
A book that has a collection of maps! This book also contains information about the land, crops, and the population of an area.
What is an atlas?
The part in some textbooks that lists the meaning of words specific to that book's subject. It's like a little dictionary at the back of your book!
What is the glossary?
This resource helps you track and store your sources and create citations. It's everyone's FAVORITE thing to learn about... ;)
What is NoodleTools?
The name of the library catalog. I can use this to check if a book is available and see where I need to go to find it.
What is OPAC?
A nonfiction book about a real person's life, written by someone else.
What is a biography?
These are nonfiction books that we don't read beginning to end-- they are to be checked for quick facts and information on specific topics.
What are reference books?
An alphabetical listing of all the topics discussed in a nonfiction book and the pages on which you can find them, usually found at the end of the book.
What is an index?
These resources are paid subscriptions that provide us with current and reliable information on specific topics when doing online research.
What is a database?
This is the name of our wonderful new library assistant!
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?