Competency 5b: Specific Facet

Specific Facet

Search Query: Promoting an interest in reading among elementary students
Database: ERIC2799– student literacy or student reading
Using the specific facet method, I expected “student literacy” to return the fewest hits.
My results were:
2799– student literacy or student reading
2407 – reading interest or encouraging reading
1761 – elementary students and reading or kids and books

Evaluation - In each case, too many results were returned, although an initial scan of the hits that “elementary students and reading or kids and books” brought up showed a high level of relevance. At this point, I would go back and either narrow the parameters or try the building block or successive fractions methods.

The top three hits were:
Children's Morphological Knowledge: Links to Literacy Preview. By: McCutchen, Deborah; Green, Laura; Abbott, Robert D.. Reading Psychology, v29 n4 p289-314 Jul 2008. (EJ805379)

Humorous Cartoons Made by Preservice Teachers for Teaching Science Concepts to Elementary Students: Process and ProductPreview . By: Rule, Audrey C.; Sallis, Derek A.; Donaldson, J. Ana. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium (1st, Cedar Falls, IA, Apr 7, 2008). 2008 32 pp. (ED501244)

Increasing Reading Comprehension of Elementary Students through Fluency-Based Interventions Preview . By: Neumann, Veda S.; Ross, Dorothy K.; Slaboch, Anita F.. Online Submission. 2008 89 pp. (ED500847)