Reference Materials. Four Types of Reference Materials Encyclopedia Atlas Dictionary Thesaurus Almanac.

1. REFERENCEMATERIALS:
ENCYCLOPEDIA, ATLAS,
DICTIONARY THESAURUSAND
ALMANAC
By: Ibrahim Muneer

2. 1- Encyclopedia
2- Atlas
3- Dictionary
4- Thesaurus
5- Almanac

3. ◦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. ◦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.

5. ◦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.

6. ◦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.

7. ◦In an almanac you will find information about the current year.
◦Almanacs are published new every year.
◦In an almanac you will find information about planting season,
the phases of the moon, best times for fishing, and other
information related to nature or science.
◦Benjamin Franklin was one of the first Americans to publish an
almanac. It was called Poor Richard’s Almanac.

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. Challenge Question
One
◦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. Encyclopedia

11. Challenge Question
Number Two
 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?

13. Challenge Question
Number Three
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?

15. Challenge Question
Number Four
 My family is going on a camping trip. We plan to do
some fishing. In which reference material would we
find the best times of day to go fishing and when
the full moon will be.

16. Almanac

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