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Reference Materials

Reference Materials. Five Types of Reference Materials. 1. Encyclopedia 2. Almanac 3. Atlas 4. Dictionary 5. Thesaurus. Encyclopedia. Why do we use encyclopedias? An encyclopedia is used when someone wants to find information about a person, place, or thing.

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  1. Reference Materials

  2. Five Types of Reference Materials • 1. Encyclopedia • 2. Almanac • 3. Atlas • 4. Dictionary • 5. Thesaurus

  3. Encyclopedia • Why do we use encyclopedias? • An encyclopedia is used when someone wants to find information about a person, place, or thing. • You may want to find out information about George Washington. You can learn about him from reading information in an encyclopedia.

  4. Almanac • Annual publication (book made every year) • Gives results, stats, and facts for the past and upcoming year. Sunrise, sunset, rain, weather. • Know upcoming results such as when the next full moon is, or what month you should prepare to crop your agriculture. • Sports almanacs - who won the world series • www.almanac.com

  5. Atlas • An atlas is a map. • If you want to find a specific place, street, road, city, or state. • Many people use an atlas when they are going on vacation or traveling to another place.

  6. Dictionary • We use a dictionary to look up words. • You will find the meaning of words in a dictionary. • For example, when you do not know the meaning of a word in a story. You may use a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word.

  7. Thesaurus • In a thesaurus, you will find synonyms for words. • First, you look up the word in the thesaurus. Next to the word you will find a list of words that mean the same things as the word you looked up. • Like wonderful –great, magnificent, excellent, terrific, cool, and fantastic • Also in a thesaurus you will find an antonym for the word. Like horrible or awful would be an antonym for wonderful.

  8. Do you know? • For the next couple of slides I will describe a situation. You must decide what type of reference material would be used in this situation. • Do you know what reference material to use?

  9. Question #1 • My teacher has assigned a report on the country of Mexico. I need to find information on when the country began and who lived there in ancient times. • Where would I find this type of information?

  10. Answer • Encyclopedia • Great Job!!!

  11. Question #2 • My family is planning a vacation to Florida. We are going to Universal Studios. I am so excited! My father is trying to decide what interstate he needs to take. Or how to get their from Tennessee? • What reference material should he use to find this information?

  12. Answer • Atlas • Great Work!!!!

  13. Question #3 Jimmy is working on writing a sentence with each of his spelling words. He comes to a word he does not know. How can he find the definition of the word? What reference material should he use to find this information?

  14. Answer • Dictionary • Fantastic!!!!!

  15. Question #4 • I am writing a story about my experience at the Spelling Bee. I want to find another word to use instead of saying great. Where can I find a word that means the same as great? What reference material would I use to find this information?

  16. Answer • Thesaurus • Wonderful Job!!!!

  17. Question #5 • Jane is working on a research paper for her third grade class. She is trying to find information about how people in France celebrate Christmas. First, she must find out where her country is located and some of the major cities. Where would she find this information? • What reference material would she use for this report?

  18. Answer • Atlas • Fantastic Job!!!!

  19. Question #6 • Tracy is writing an essay that has the words “sad”, “happy”, and “fun”. Her teacher has told her that these are “baby words”. Tracy wants to find another word that means the same thing as “sad”, “happy” and “fun”. • Where can she find this information? What reference material should Tracy use to find a synonym for this word?

  20. Answer • Thesaurus • Excellent Job!!!!!

  21. school library internet farmers population stats ? almanac full moon facts sports statistics agriculture weather forecast city library teacher

  22. Reference Materials • Reference materials like encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, dictionaries and thesaurus help us find information. • The internet has all of these reference materials. So, if you don’t have these things at your home you will be able to find them on the computer.

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