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3rd Grade Library Skills

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The call number of a book in the library will help you to...

a)

Identify the book's publisher

b)

Tells how many books of the same title are in the library

c)

Locate the book on the shelf

d)

Identify when the book is due back in the library

2.

You used the DESTINY library catalog to find a book on FROGS. Which book would you choose to find out about the life cycle of a frog?

a)

Froggy Plays Soccer

b)

Frog Poems

c)

All About Frogs

d)

Frog and Toad Are Friends

3.

This is part of an index from a book on alligators. On which page would you find information about what alligators eat?

a)

Family life 25

b)

Habitat 43

c)

Behavior 72

d)

Diet 14

4.

Which of the following book titles is a biography?

a)

Harry Potter

b)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

c)

The Solar System

d)

Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln

5.

Which of these book titles is a fairy tale?

a)

Cinderella

b)

Harry Potter

c)

Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing

d)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

6.

If a book has a capital letter E on the spine label, which section of the library would you look in for the book?

a)

Everywhere

b)

Encyclopedias

c)

Everyone

d)

Fiction

7.

If the book has a capital letter F on the spine label, which section of the library would you in for the book?

a)

Amos Fortune

b)

Friends

c)

Fiction

d)

Fantasy

8.

Which reference book would you look in to find maps?

a)

Atlas

b)

Dictionary

c)

Almanac

d)

Encyclopedia

9.

Which of these spine labels would you find on the book Cat in the Hat?

a)

F

CLE

b)

E

S

c)

B

Kin

d)

540

B

10.

Which of these spine labels would you find on the book The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

a)

F

CLA

b)

E

S

c)

B

Kin

d)

540

B

11.

Which of these spine labels would you find on the book Rocks and Minerals?

a)

F

CLE

b)

E

S

c)

B

Kin

d)

540

B

12.

Which of the following is NOT a good way to pick a book to read?

a)

Choose the thickest book on the shelf

b)

Recommendation by a friend or librarian

c)

Read the summary

d)

Read the first page

13.

The first page in a book that usually gives the title, author, illustrator, and publisher is called the __________.

a)

End page

b)

Back page

c)

Cover page

d)

Title page

14.

What is another name for copyright date?

a)

Author date

b)

Book date

c)

Publication date

d)

Check-out date

15.

You must find the answer to these questions:

"What do snakes eat?"

"Where do snakes live?"

"How do snakes grow?"

What word should you look up to find these answers?

a)

Rat

b)

Desert

c)

Snakes

d)

Jungle

16.

You need to know the meaning of these words for a science test:

rock, mineral, fossil, and crystal.

Where would be hte best place to look?

a)

An encyclopedia

b)

A dictionary

c)

An atlas

d)

An almanac

17.

You are looking for a book that comes from the author's imagination. Where in the library would you look for this type of book?

a)

The fiction section

b)

The biography section

c)

The nonfiction section

18.

Your teacher is reading aloud a book to the class. You go to the library to get a copy of the book to read yourself. Which computer search would you use to find the book?

a)

A title search

b)

An author search

c)

A subject search

d)

A keyword search

19.

Which type of book would you use, if you wanted to learn more about where tigers live?

a)

A dictionary

b)

An encyclopedia

c)

An atlas

d)

A thesaurus

20.

In social studies you are learning about the 50 states. You need to find as much information as possible in the library. Which resources would NOT give you any information on the states?

a)

Fiction books

b)

Non-fiction books

c)

Websites and databases

d)

Reference books