Core Resources
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Scholarly research database from EBSCO covering early childhood to higher education and diverse educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Indexing for more than 3500 journals and full text for over 2000 journals, 500 books, and 1700 conference papers. Coverage from 1800 to present.
Key Concepts
Some concepts to research in conjunction with struggling readers:
- Portfolios
- Brain based learning strategies
- Listening skills or listening capacity levels
- Dyslexia
- Teaching strategies
Developing Keywords
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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