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FCAT-Locating and Interpreting Information
Source | Information |
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Almanacs | Think "statistics". Includes calendars, weather forecasts , information about the moon, stars, ocean tides and statistcs. |
Atlases | Think "maps". Books of maps that also have information about the geography of the earth. |
Road atlases | Think "travel". Will show you which Interstate highways or roads to take when you travel inside a state or from state to state. |
Historical atlases | Think " old maps". Contain very old maps that show the names and location of countries hundreds of years ago. |
Encyclopedias | Has passages about every subject arranged in alphabetical order( by subject). |
Reader's Guides to Periodical Literature | Books that list magazine articles from 100 magazines. you can look up a subject and read the titles of magazine articles about your subject. |
Telephone Book - Yellow Pages | Think "Goods and Services". List, goods and services you can buy in your city. Arranged alphabetically by subject such as Automobiles, Churches, and Dentists. |
Dictionaries | Gives the number of syllables in a word, its pronunciation, its part of speech, and its word origins. Sometimes it gives synonyms. |
Thesaurus | Think "synonym/antonym". Lists words in alphabetical order and gives their synonyms (words with same meaning) and antonyms (words with opposite meaning). |