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Reference Skills

Reference Skills. How much do you know?. If you were doing a report on an animal, and you kept using the word “interesting” too many times, what is the easiest resource you could use to find a word to replace “interesting?” a. atlas b. index c. thesuarus. Answer. c. thesuarus.

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Reference Skills

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  1. Reference Skills How much do you know?

  2. If you were doing a report on an animal, and you kept using the word “interesting” too many times, what is the easiest resource you could use to find a word to replace “interesting?”a. atlas b. index c. thesuarus

  3. Answer • c. thesuarus

  4. If you were doing a project on Mexico, and you need to draw a map for your poster, what is the best resource to use? • Table of contents • atlas • dictionary

  5. Answer • B. atlas

  6. If you were reading in a science book and came across a bold-faced word that you didn’t know, where could you quickly find the definition? • A. thesaurus • B. dictionary • C. glossary

  7. Answer • C. glossary

  8. If you heard a word you didn’t know, how could you find out the word’s definition? • A. Use a dictionary. • B. Use an encyclopedia. • C. Use an index.

  9. Answer • A. Use a dictionary.

  10. If you were doing a report on “rattlesnakes,” and you had a book entitled Snakes of North America, and you just wanted to read the pages about rattlesnakes, what would be the best way to find them? • A. Flip through the book. • B. Use the guide words. • C. Use the index.

  11. Answer • C. Use the index.

  12. What would be the author’s purpose in writing a book entitled, How Mountains AreFormed? • A. to entertain • B. to inform • C. to persuade

  13. Answer • B. to inform

  14. What would be the author’s purpose in writing a book about a talking dog? • A. to entertain • B. to inform • C. to persuade

  15. Answer • A. to entertain

  16. What would be the author’s purpose in writing a letter to the principal asking that students not be given break detention? • A. to entertain • B. to inform • C. to persuade

  17. Answer • C. to persuade

  18. What genre is a book about Abraham Lincoln? • A. fiction • B. biography • C. drama

  19. Answer • B. biography

  20. What genre is a story about the Civil War with made-up characters? • A. Biography • B. Nonfiction • C. historical fiction

  21. Answer • C. historical fiction

  22. What genre is a book about whales? • A. fiction • B. nonfiction • C. historical fiction

  23. Answer • B. nonfiction

  24. If you wrote the story of “The Three Bears” in a way that could be acted out in a play, what genre would that be? • A. poetry • B. drama • C. nonfiction

  25. Answer • B. drama

  26. A book, newspaper, magazine, thesaurus, encyclopedia, internet web site, and index can all be used as ________ for a project. • A. resources • B. genres

  27. Answer • A. resources

  28. If you were doing a report on alligators, and you had a big book from the library entitled All About Reptiles, where could you find the pages about alligators? • A. glossary • B. title page • C. Table of contents

  29. Answer • C. Table of contents

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