Reference Books
Nonfiction Text Features
Fiction Genres
Mix It Up
100

A reference book used to find the spelling of a word.

What is a dictionary

100

A page in the back of a book that defines some words in the book.

What is a glossary

100

A fiction story with clues about a puzzling crime to solve

What is a mystery

100

Section of the library that you could find books about people

What is the Biography section

200
A book used to find information about crocodiles
What is an encyclopedia
200

Page in the front of a book that tells you what page to find chapters(or main topics) in the book

What is a table of contents

200

A fiction story that could actually happen in real life.

What is realistic ficgtion

200

Each individual book is a set of reference books

What is a volume

300

A reference book that will help me locate a map of the United States.

What is an atlas

300

Words that describe what a picture is about in a nonfiction book

What is a caption

300

A fiction story written about a period of time or event from the past

What is historical fiction

300

A set of resource books with information on a variety of topics with multiple volumes.

What is an encyclopedia set

400
A reference book that gives you choice of words that have similar meaning.
What is a thesaurus
400

page(s) in back of book with topics/keywords and the page number

What is an index

400

A fiction story that takes place in a made up world and involves something to do with technology and/or space. Characters could include, space aliens or robots.

What is science fiction

400
The type of print that entry words in a dictionary or important words are written.
What is boldface print
500

Thename of the words on the top of dictionary pages that help you to know what words are on those pages

What are guide words

500

A picture in a nonfiction book that have labels for each part/section of the picture

What are diagrams

500

A fiction story with magic, monsters and made up ideas, places or events.

What is a fantasy

500

Name of person who developed a way to organize nonfiction books (hint:his name is the name of the system)

Who is Melvin Dewey