Alphabetizing Words What does alphabetizing mean What word

Alphabetizing Words

What does alphabetizing mean? What word do you see in alphabetizing? alphabetizing So, what do you think alphabetizing means? That’s right…putting things in alphabetical order!

What is alphabetical order? Alphabetizing means putting things in alphabetical order. What is alphabetical order? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Does alphabetical order ever change? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ What do you think? Why?

Why do we alphabetize? If alphabetical order stays the same, why do you think we alphabetize? Hint: We’re in the library, what might we put in alphabetical order? How will putting things in alphabetical order help us? How does knowing the alphabet help us?

Why we put things in alphabetical order We all use the same system. (for the language) We can find things more easily. We know where to look.

How does alphabetical order help us find things? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ If we’re looking for A, where do we look? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ If we’re looking for Z, where do we look? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

How does alphabetical order help us find things? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Does alphabetical order ever change? If things are in alphabetical order will they ever look like this: QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM

Alphabetical Order No Alphabetical order will always be the same: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Alphabetical Order Alphabetical order helps us find things because we always know where to look. Once we know the alphabet, we can find things that are in alphabetical order.

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How do we alphabetize? First, we line up the words.

How do we alphabetize? Next, we put things in order by A, B, C

What do we do if two words start with the same letter?

Line them up. Cross out the first letter. Alphabetize the second letter.

What if you don’t know the alphabet? Use the alphabetizing helper.

Using an alphabetizing helper Feldman Glass Jones

CAR Using the helper when the first letter is the same CUP

Let’s try it. Work together to put words in alphabetical order. Then let’s share.

Stop Here!

Which books do we alphabetize? Get up and find books that have letters on them instead of numbers. What kinds of books are these? Fiction or nonfiction? How do you know? What do we alphabetize on these books: the title or the author? How do you know?

Fiction books are alphabetized Fiction books are put on the shelves in alphabetical order They are alphabetized by the author’s last name If these books are alphabetized by the author’s last name, then when you look at the book shelves for fiction books are you going to find books on a certain topic or by a certain author in the same place on the shelf? Answer: You will find books by the same author in the same place on the shelf.

Fiction Books Let’s think about Dr. Seuss books. Do you all know Dr. Seuss books? If we put them on the shelves by what they were about, we would have to look all over the library for Dr. Seuss books!

Why do we read Dr. Seuss? To learn about cats? To learn about sleep? To learn about the lorax?

Why do we read Dr. Seuss? We read Dr. Seuss because we like the way he rhymes. We read Dr. Seuss because we like the pictures. We read Dr. Seuss because his books are fun. We don’t read Dr. Seuss to learn facts. Remember, his books are usually fiction books. Fiction books are FAKE. Fiction books are FUN.

Fiction books are shelved by author’s last name We want to find all books by the same author in one spot. We want to read the books because we like the author, not because we want to learn about a topic. We’re not looking for news. (What type of book would we look for if we wanted news? ) When we read fiction, we are looking to have fun!

All of Dr. Seuss’s Fiction books will be near each other on the shelves.

What letter will the Dr. Seuss books be filed under? S Why? Because the books are fiction and are shelved by the author’s last name