Suggests skills students should develop for working with atlases and specific activities for teaching them. A list of books, films, filmstrips, and cassettes for teaching about atlases is provided, as well as a list of atlases for student use. (EM)

To help students understand that references are tools used to locate specific information, one librarian has her third-grade students create their own reference toolboxes as she introduces dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, and thesauri. Presents a lesson plan to introduce print and nonprint thesauri to third and fourth graders and includes a…