Competency 6: LS 5013 Building Block Search Strategy

Search Topic: How do picture books help children develop a love of reading?

Database: ERIC/FirstSearch

S1: picture books or wordless books
S2: children or kids
S3: reading or literacy

Actual Strategy: ((keywords: picture and keywords: books) or (keywords: wordless and keywords: books)) and (keywords: reading or keywords: literacy) and (keywords: children or keywords: kids)

Records found: 254 hits

1 example of records found:
Read Me a Song: Teaching Reading Using Picture Book Songs.
Wanda J Routier 2003
English Document (ED) 19

Reflection:

This search went very well after I changed my original search topic question. My original question had the search terms children, literature, and reading in them. I found the terms literature and reading to be too closely tied together to think of synonyms for both of them so I chose the term picture books in place of the term literature. This created a more specific search and allowed me to find several records that would help me to answer my search question.

I like the Building Block Search Strategy the most out of the four types of search strategies posted here on my blog. I think it is the search strategy that is the easiest to do. It is very useful because the results I always get when using this search strategy are very positive. I am very glad that I learned to use the Building Block Search Strategy in this course.