Saturday, October 18, 2008

Competency 5c: Successive Fractions

Search Query: Promoting an interest in reading among elementary students
Database: WorldCat
157 hits - student literacy and student reading and elementary students and reading

Based on the results I got with the specific facet method, I started with student literacy and student reading as my broadest topic.
s1 - student literacy and student reading = 1307 hits
s1 and elementary students and reading = 157 hits
Evaluation - Adding the second string of terms narrowed the results significantly, but still gave me a lot to sift through. There were relevant results, but many of the hits were not what I was looking for.

The top three hits were:
The new science literacy : using language skills to help students learn science / Author: Thier, Marlene.; Daviss, Bennett. Publication: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2002

Perspectives on rescuing urban literacy education spies, saboteurs, and saints / Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts / Author: Flood, James. Publication: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003

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