Reference Skills

What type of reference skill would you use to find the meaning of a word in your science text book?

• encyclopedia

• phone book

• glossary

• globe

What type of reference skill would you use to find a synonym of the word warm?

• dictionary

• almanac

• thesaurus

• atlas

What type of reference skill would you use to find what page a chapter starts on in a book about sloths?

• copyright page

• the spine of the book

• atlas

• table of contents

When looking for states that border Oklahoma, where would you look?

• encyclopedia

• atlas

• thesaurus

• dictionary

When you need to find out the average rainfall of Texas for the year 1998, where would you look?

• phone book

• encyclopedia

• dictionary

• almanac

Where would you look to find out the weather for tomorrow?

• the internet

• dictionary

• encyclopedia

• atlas

When you need to find the opposite of the word calm, where would you look?

• thesaurus

• almanac

• dictionary

• encyclopedia

You don't know what the word function means, where do you look?

• atlas

• phone book

• almanac

• dictionary

When writing about bearded dragons and you need to look back at a page talking about what they eat, how do you get to that information quickly?

• using the glossary

• using the title page

• using the index

• using the back cover

What type of reference skill would you use to find a map of the Amazon River?

• atlas

• dictionary

• glossary

• thesaurus