Find What a Book Is About Using the Table of Contents or Index
1. Books have many parts. Each part of a book can give you information about the book.
2. How can you find out what a book is about? You can look at the second page of a book. It is called the Table of Contents . The Table of Contents is located in the front of a book following the title page . It lists units, chapters, or stories along with their page numbers.
8. In some books there are many different subjects. You can find these subjects by looking in the back of the book at the book index . The subjects are listed in alphabetical order. If you had a list of subjects about bees, bugs, cats, and dogs. The list would look like this: bees page 3 bugs page 7 cats page 10 dogs page 15