Choosing The Right Book

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles

Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the non-fiction section of a library:

Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ?

• Yearbook of Population

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992?

• Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue

3. How to look after a puppy?

• Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from?

• Dictionary of Customs and Fables

5. The date of the Wahine disaster?

• Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates

6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games?

• Guinness Book of Records

7. The size of Noah’s Ark?

• The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power?

• A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run?

• Encyclopedia of Athletics

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy?

• Myths and Legends

Non-Fiction Books/Dewey Decimals

Non-Fiction

What are non-fiction books?

Non-Fiction books are books that are true. They have true facts in them.

Who was Dewey? Marvin Dewey is the man who created the dewey decimals system.

How are non-fiction books arranged on the shelf? They are sorted into biggest to smallest. On the left is the biggest and the right is the smallest.

List the following spine labels in the correct order:

001

219

623

796

913

Choose a non-fiction book from the shelves.

Does the book you have chosen include the following?  Locate and photograph

Index-                                                                             

Contents page-                                                                          

Bibliography-                                                                         Title pages-

References-                                            Copyright                                 

What is a glossary?

A glossary is a mini dictionary.