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Subject: Special Educational Needs
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11-14
Order Number: 16009
Knowledge of most facets of life is abundant and can be found in appropriate reference books, of which there are many kinds, culminating in the encyclopaedia.
In order to make references as easy as possible to find, we classify information either numerically or in the order of the alphabet. Almost all the information in verbal form is classified alphabetically and so it is necessary for children to be familiar with the skills of finding things in alphabetical order.
The following are examples of the better-known lists with which people need to become familiar from childhood to adulthood:
- Class register and other school lists
- Dictionary or Thesaurus
- Books of knowledge
- Specific reference books in school subjects
- Encyclopaedias
- School library catalogue
- Public library catalogue for books and music
- Atlas and street-map indexes
- Telephone directories and Yellow Pages
- Catalogues and guides of many kinds
Exercises in these skills, of which there are plenty in this book, have a considerable bonus in that they also act as extenders of vocabulary and spelling reminder exercises.
The contents pages show the progressive stages in the skills of using alphabetical order for the seeking of references.
In any of the subsequent lists, pupils should be required to form the habit of finding the meanings of any words with which they are not totally familiar.
