EDEC 3384 - Curriculum and the Young Child

Some concepts to research in conjunction with struggling readers:

• Portfolios
• Brain based learning strategies
• Listening skills or listening capacity levels
• Dyslexia
• Teaching strategies

Search with synonyms and related words.

• In addition to readers, also search on reading.
• In addition to struggling, search on difficulty, disability, disabilities, ability, comprehension, etc.

Truncate terms for variant endings.

• Use an asterisk (*) in most databases.
  
• read* will find readers, reading, and read.
• struggl* will find struggling and struggle.
  
• disabilit* will find disabilities and disability.
  
• Our catalog uses ? to truncate; a few databases may use other symbols
  

Quotation marks keep phrases together.

• Searching in ERIC for struggling readers finds all 911 results that include readers and include struggling.
• Searching for "struggling readers" finds only the 646 results with that exact phrase.

Subject terms can focus results.

• ERIC: Drop-down field on Advanced Search.
• ERIC: "Refine Results" Subject section to the left of search results
• ERIC: Thesaurus

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