Our Library
Non Fiction books are books with true facts. Non fiction books tell you about anything such as insects or technology. For example if you wanted to find books on news,internet,museums and magazines you will find it at 000-009, physiology, witch trials and philosophy at 100-199, religion and mythology at 200-299, education, fairy tales, folk tales and social sciences at 300-399, language at 400-499, sciences and mathematics at 500-599, technology, health and cooking at 600-699, arts, sports and recreation at 700-799, literature at 800-899, geography, history and travel at 900-999 and biography at 92.
Sophisticated books are picture books but they are more challenging so these books are more for older kids. They have more complicated photos than junior picture books.
Picture books are for juniors because they have big words and the have interesting pictures. The pictures help the juniors understand what they are reading.
Kids like magazines because they are interesting with facts about rugby or animals and there are activity magazines. Magazines are full of cartoons and animated pictures.
Reference books are books you can not take out they are books for people to use at the library. In this shelf there are dictionaries, atlases and more.
Easy to read books are easy chapter books for kids starting to read chapter books. They still have pictures in them but they have more words then a picture book.
Reference Section
L.I. - Know the reference section of the library
Understand why these books are not issued
Know what type of books are included in a reference section
1. What book would you find the answers to these questions in?
Match a question with a reference book.
- Who was Mahatma Gandhi? 1. 3.Dictionary
- What is a synonym for ‘mariner’?4. 4.Thesaurus
- Which countries border France?2. 1.Biographical encyclopaedia
- How was gold first discovered?5. 5.Encyclopaedia
- How do you pronounce the word foliage?3. 2.Atlas
2. Delete True or False to leave the correct answer to these statements.
A biographical dictionary contains entries about places in the world.False
A globe will show you where the oceans are. True
A road map will show you the distance between cities. True
When you take notes, write just a word or phrase to record information. True
3. Delete the incorrect answers
A thesaurus is a dictionary of...
synonyms
A book of maps is...
an atlas
An index is not found in...
a dictionary
Complete these sentences:
The books found in the reference section... are books about the world, people, dictionaries, teachers books and thesauruses.
You can’t take these books out because... they are for everyone to use in the library.
FRIENDSHIP
Friendship smells like the warm dripping syrup on top of a bed of hot pancakes in the morning.
Friendship looks like the bright massive moon in the night sky while we are playing outside.
Friendship tastes like a hot milo on a cold winter night while we are having a sleepover.
Friendship feels like the afraidness of the horror movie we watched on the first night of our sleepover.
Friendship sounds like the birds in the summer singing beautifully in the morning while we wake up from our long night.
BUG ME
L.I- How to use your ‘wits’.
W-Walk away
I-Ignore
T-Tell Someone
S-Stand up for myself
Your sister plays in your room and doesn’t pick up her mess. What can you say or do?
1. First I will ignore her because I will think she would clean up the mess.
2. If she doesn’t then I will tell someone like my mum so she could tell her to clean it.
3. Then if she doesn’t clean it I will stand up for myself and tell her to clean the mess otherwise she is not allowed back in my room.
