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Finding Quotations and Information in Books Online Skills practiced: Navigating Web sites with complete online texts, reading for information, summarizing and paraphrasing

This activity will help you practice locating, and searching within, complete online texts. Allow 30 to 45 minutes to complete this activity, because each answer will take three to five minutes to find.


Part I: Search by Author and Title

Part II: Browse by Subject

1. Go to the following Web site:

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html


This site allows you to locate complete texts not only by author and title, but also by subject.

2. Click on the appropriate subject to view a list of books. Find the correct book, then open the book and skim its contents to answer these questions.

Find a book on this subject. Write the author and title here. Now answer this question.
a. Endangered animal species in South Dakota Summarize the four factors that cause the greatest damage to these animals and their habitats.
b. Mount Rainier, an active volcano Find and print a map showing Mount Rainier's location.
c. How parents in a bilingual home can teach their young children to read in two languages Paraphrase three pieces of how-to information that the author gives to parents.