1. Encyclopedias 3rd Grade Daniels Run Elementary School

2. What is an encyclopedia?
A REFERENCE book containing articles on a wide range of subjects. An encyclopedia is usually in multiple volumes which are arranged alphabetically.
What is a REFERENCE book?

3. Examples
The World Book Encyclopedia
The World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia

4. Using an Encyclopedia
World Book
2005 D
If you are looking up Dogs then you would go to the “D” volume and look for the article on dogs using the guide words to help you.
What are guide words?

5. Keywords
If you are looking up Ancient Rome would you look for Ancient or Rome?
Rome is your keyword
This is the word that you look up in the encyclopedia

6. INDEX Sometimes when you look for your keyword you can’t find it!
Then you need to use the INDEX
The index is the LAST volume of the encyclopedia
Index
Index

7. Which volume would you look in to answer your question?
World Book
World Book
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2005 A B C D E F G H I
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Index

8. Now for some examples on the overhead!