Competency 5a: Building Block Search

Topic: Promoting an interest in reading among elementary students

Database: Library Lit

S1: children or students or youth
S2: encourage or promote
S3: reading or literacy
Actual search: children or students or youth and encourage or promote and reading or literacy

Number of hits: 533

First two:
Milliot, J. RC2 Corp. Bullish Toy-Book Connection. Publishers Weekly v. 255 no. 26 (June 30 2008) p. 18
Palmer, T. Reading the Game: Using Sport to Encourage Boys and Men to Read More. Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services v. 21 no. 2 (June 2008) p. 78-83

This search needed more parameters to be set. Next time, I would limit dates, keep it to peer reviewed or full-text articles. As it stands, 533 hits is too broad for results. It would be overwhelming if every result was relevant, and too frustrating to look through if not and the researcher was looking for useful hits.