Activity 1 instructs students to record the names of plants and to "look on websites or in books to determine the names of any unfamiliar plants," which asks students to use digital and print reference sources to identify words. The Student Activity Page for "Plants Used in My Community" provides spaces for students to write the name of a plant and a sentence describing how it is used, prompting students to find and record word labels from resources. These elements require students to consult external sources to find word names.

Activity 8 instructs students to "look up the definition of any words she cannot define," prompting students to find word meanings. The activity also has students circle first letters and, if needed, "look at the letters of the alphabet" to determine alphabetical order, which supports skills used when consulting reference tools. Other parts ask students to explain unfamiliar vocabulary (e.g., asking what "dissolve" means) and to write words in a spelling journal, reinforcing word study.

In the Introduction students are instructed to "Read the definition of the word balance in a dictionary." The lesson also asks students to review the term balance and explain what they learned about using a balance, which involves attending to the word's meaning.

The lesson's Skills list explicitly names glossaries among various text features students should know and use to locate key facts or information. Activity 6 has students create a "Picture Dictionary" for the lesson spelling words, requiring them to write each word and produce an illustration. Activity 2 asks students to consult the book's Contents page to find where animals live, showing use of a text feature to locate information.

The lesson's Skills list explicitly tells students to "know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently," which names glossaries as a feature to use. The Queen Mary research activity asks students to explore online sources and to notice bold text and other text features while filling in a research sheet, giving students practice locating information in digital texts.