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What is an encyclopedia?

• offers information about a person, place, or thing

• contains maps that help find a specific place, street, road, city, or state.

• useful in finding the definitions, synonyms, antonyms, spelling, pronunciation, and parts of speech for words

• offers synonyms and antonyms for words - very useful in writing

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1B

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

What is an atlas?

• offers information about a person, place, or thing

•  simple words used as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords in a search

•  contains maps that help find a specific place, street, road, city, or state

•  offers synonyms and antonyms for words

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is a dictionary?

• This operator is used when both terms connected must be present in the search results.  It narrows the search.

• finding the definitions, synonyms, antonyms, spelling, pronunciation, and parts of speech for words.

• contains maps that help find a specific place, street, road, city, or state

• offers information about a person, place, or thing.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

What is a thesaurus?

• offers information about a person, place, or thing

• This operator is used when either term should be present in the search results.

• This operator is used to remove certain words that are not needed

•  offers synonyms and antonyms for words

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is a boolean operator?

• a train operator

• objects around words when they must appear in the search results exactly as it is written

•  simple words used as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords in a search

• an asterisk

What is AND used for?

• when both terms are connected must be present in the search results.  It narrows the search.

• when either term should be present in the search results.   It broadens the search.

•  used to remove certain words that are not needed

What is NOT used for?

• contains maps that help find a specific place, street, road, city, or state

• when either term should be present in the search results.   It broadens the search.

•  used to remove certain words that are not needed

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

What is OR used for?

• offers synonyms and antonyms for words

• offers information about a person, place, or thing.

• when either term should be present in the search results.   It broadens the search.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

When should we use QUOTATION MARKS?

• when words must appear in the search results exactly as it is written.

• for shortening a search

• to combine or exclude keywords in a search

When should we use an ASTERISK?

• to shorten a search

• to broaden a search