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Parts of a book
Tell me a story
Would I use a dictionary for that? True or False
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For 100 points - Who is the person who writes the words for a book.
Author - 100 points!
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For 100 points - What tells us when and where the story takes place?
The setting - 100 points!
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For 100 points - Would I use a dictionary to check the spelling of a word for my writing assignment?
True - 100 points!
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For 100 points - What is the best reference source to find out what babies like to play with? newspaper, thesaurus, or a book about babies?
Book about babies - 100 points!
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For 100 points - What are the events in a story called?
The plot - 100 points!
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For 200 points - Who is the person who draws the pictures in a book.
An illustrator - 200 Points!
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For 200 points - What is the name of the people in a story?
The characters - 200 points!
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For 200 points - Would I use a dictionary to check that I am using a word correctly by looking up the part of speech?
True - 200 points!
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For 200 points - What is the best reference source to find information about a yard sale near you? atlas, internet or dictionary
internet - 200 points!
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For 200 points - What is the name of the company that makes the book, such as Random House.
The publisher - 200 points!
300
For 300 points - What is the name of the thing that holds the pages of the book together.
A spine - 300 points!
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For 300 points - What is the name of the thing that characters in a story find difficult and challenging and need to overcome?
The problem - 300 points!
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For 300 points - Would I use a dictionary to look up the definition of a word I do not know?
True - 300 points!
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For 300 points - What is the best reference source to find a synonym for the word curiosity? dictionary, thesaurus or almanac
thesaurus - 300 points!
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For 300 points - Examples of this are mystery, science fiction, and historical fiction.
Genre - 300 points!
400
For 400 points - What is the name of the page that shows the title, author, illustrator, publisher, and place of publication.
The title page - 400 points!
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For 400 points - When the problem in a story is fixed we call it this.
The solution - 400 points!
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For 400 points - Would I use a dictionary to find a synonym for the word ‘awesome’ ?
False - 400 points!
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For 400 points - What is the best reference source to find the coldest place in the United States? almanac, atlas or dictionary?
almanac - 400 points!
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For 400 points - This tells us when a book was registered by the author and illustrator as their work (also known as it's birthdate).
The copyright - 400 points!
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For 500 points - There is a label located on the spine of every book. On that label is a number. What is that number called?
The call number - 500 points!
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For 500 points - The events that take place in a story are called this.
The plot - 500 points!
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For 500 points - Would I use a dictionary to find the population of Fort Collins?
False - 500 points!
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For 500 points - What is the best reference source to find the part of speech of the word ‘jump’? thesaurus, dictionary or encyclopedia?
dictionary - 500 points!
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For 500 points - This is the last name of a person who created a system to organize books in libraries.
Melvil Dewey - 500 points!