Research Skills
You could use this to find the definition of the word "teacher".
What is a dictionary?
This is a page in a book that names the the title of the book. It also tells who wrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.
What is the Title Page?
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the Scroll Bar?
The Dewey Decimal System was named for this famous librarian.
Who is Melvil Dewey?
Stories that are made up from the imagination that we read for fun.
What is Fiction?
You use this book to find a synonym or an antonym.
What is a thesaurus?
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the Table of Contents?
This shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar?
Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales are found in this section?
What is 398?
Writing we read to find facts and information .
What is Non-Fiction?
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
A network of millions of computers from all over the world. This allows computers all over the world to trade information.
What is the Internet?
Books about Lions, Alligators, Snakes, & Dinosaurs are found in this section of the library?
What is the 500s?
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 a 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 of a textbook that might list the meaning of the word temple?
What is the glossary?
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
What is a Search Engine?
Books about Football are found in this section.
What is the 700s?
A non-fiction book about a real person's life that was written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
This is a book of facts that is published each year containing miscellaneous information.
What is an Almanac?
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a Hyperlink?
Books about Aliens and the Loch Ness Monster are found in this section of the library.
What is the 000s & 100s.
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?