🔎 Research Skills
📖 Fiction or Nonfiction
📚 Genres Galore
💻 Digital Citizenship
📘 Library Know-How
100

This is what you type into the search bar to help find information.

What is a keyword?

100

This type of book tells a story that’s made up.

What is fiction?

100

A made-up story that could actually happen.

What is realistic fiction?

100

You should never share this kind of information online.

What is personal information?

100

This is the part of the book that tells you who wrote it.

What is the author?

200

This is a special tool in the library catalog that helps you find books.

What is a subject or title search?

200

This type of book gives you real information about the world.

What is nonfiction?

200

A story with talking animals, magic, or impossible things.

What is fantasy?

200

This is what you should do if something online makes you uncomfortable.

What is tell a trusted adult?

200

Fiction books are arranged on the shelf by this.

What is the author’s last name?

300

These are the books you use to learn true facts.

What are nonfiction books?

300

This is one way to tell if a book is nonfiction.

What is check for photographs, true information, diagrams, captions, index, glossary, and call number. 

300

A short story that teaches a lesson.

What is a fable?

300

Being kind and respectful online is part of being a good what?

What is a digital citizen?

300

This is the number system we use to organize nonfiction books.

What is the Dewey Decimal System?

400

You should use more than one source to do this.

What is check for accuracy?

400

This section of the library has true books organized by numbers.

What is the nonfiction section?

400

A book that tells a real person’s life story.

What is a biography?

400

This is what you should do if you want to use someone else’s work.

What is give credit or cite it?

400

These are the numbers and letters on a book’s spine.

What is the call number?

500

This is the name of our library’s online catalog.

What is OPALS?

500

This is what fiction and nonfiction have in common.

What is they can both teach you something?

500

A type of fiction with clues and a puzzle to solve.

What is a mystery?

500

This is the trail of everything you do online.

What is your digital footprint?

500

These are three things you do to take care of a book.

What are turn pages carefully, don’t bend the cover, and keep food away?