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1 Research Databases and the Common Core
How your electronic resources will help you implement the new Common Core standards

2 New Benchmarks for Language Arts and Literacy
WHAT is the Common Core? New Benchmarks for Language Arts and Literacy Information Literacy Reading Critical Thinking Inquiry Process

3 Literary Texts and Informational Texts
Common Core Guidelines for the percent of Reading Literary and Informational Text by Grade Grade Fiction (Literary) Non-Fiction (Informational) 4th 50% 8th 45% 55% 12th 30% 70%

4 Progression of Writing
Grade To Persuade To Explain To Convey Experience 4th 30% 35% 8th 12th 40% 20%

5 Informational Texts and Databases
Things called Informational Texts will take center stage Argumentation and Persuasive Texts Procedural text and Documents Exposition

6 Key points about Informational Texts:
Students will be introduced to Point of View as an aspect of Nonfiction Will be trained as: Readers, Researchers, Writers and Speakers Compare and Contrast Sources Assemble Evidence Make Contentions of their Own For more Information Check Out the SLJ Nonfiction Matters:

7 Electronic Resources @ RMHS
@ EDLINE SIRS Social Issues Research Gale ABC Clio ProQuest Learning Literature Historic New York Times Science in Context WITH LIBRARY CARD Reading Public Library Public access Homework Help

8 Everything you see here…
What are in Databases? Everything you see here… Reference Books Magazines Academic Journals Websites Newspapers Videos

9 Student Research Process
Wikipedia and Google steps to learn more. Choose keywords from Wikipedia to type into the databases. Which database should I use? Are there other places to go? Pick out the articles I want. I can’t trust Wikipedia but I can trust Gale, SIRS, NYT, etc. More articles? Read the articles and take notes on what to write. Write!

10 Tools at the Search Results Set
Use the overview article to avoid the Wikipedia information search. Click on the title to read the full text article. The citation information tells you what book the article comes from. Check out the different types of materials here. Use the Limit by to narrow your search.

11 Tools in the Articles This is the book the article comes from.
the article to read later. Have the article translated into another language! Have the article read to you or put it on your IPod! Read full text article online without having to pay per article. PowerSearch Plus

12 Publication Page When you do a publication search for Newsweek you get this “About this Publication” page This tells you it is in full text. Search within all of the back issues. Have the magazine ed to you as soon as it’s delivered! Browse to an issue! PowerSearch Plus

13 On Demand Training Videos!
Want to learn more about the difference between searching the Internet and using a library database? Try these tutorials: From Gale: From Oregon’s CLIP project: Want to learn more about using specific Gale database? Visit Gale’s tutorial page:


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