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ERIC (EBSCO)
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Educational index of research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials. Consists of the print indexes Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1966 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
Professional Development Collection
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For professional educators and focused on children's health and development, and current topics in education. Full-text for over 500 journals, with indexing/abstracting for almost 800 journals. Subset of Academic Search Complete.

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies. As early as 1993 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
Education Source
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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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