Post on 06-Feb-2016
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Research Databases and the Common Core
How your electronic resources will help you implement the new
Common Core standards
WHAT is the Common Core?
New Benchmarks for Language Arts and Literacy
Information Literacy
Reading Critical Thinking
Inquiry Process
Literary Texts and Informational Texts
Grade Fiction (Literary) Non-Fiction (Informational)
4th 50% 50%
8th 45% 55%
12th 30% 70%
Common Core Guidelines for the percent of Reading
Literary and Informational Text
by Grade
Progression of Writing
Grade To Persuade To Explain To Convey Experience
4th 30% 35% 35%
8th 35% 35% 30%
12th 40% 40% 20%
Informational Texts and Databases
5
Exposition
Argumentation and Persuasive
Texts
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Procedural text and
Documents
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:
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/nonfictionmatters
Electronic Resources @ RMHS
• SIRS Social Issues Research
• Gale• ABC Clio• ProQuest Learning
Literature• Historic New York Times• Science in Context
• Reading Public Library– Public access– Homework Help
@ EDLINE
WITH LIBRARY CARD
Statistics
Everything you see here…
Academic Journals
Magazines Websites
Reference Books
VideosNewspapers
What are in Databases?
Wikipedia and Google steps to
learn more.
Which database should I use? Are
there other places to go?
Choose keywords from Wikipedia to type into the
databases.
I can’t trust Wikipedia but I can trust Gale, SIRS, NYT, etc.
Pick out the articles I want.
Read the articles and take notes on
what to write. Write!
More articles?
Student Research Process
Click on the title to
read the full text article.
Use the Limit by to narrow your search.
The citation information tells you what book the article
comes from.
Tools at the Search Results Set
Use the overview article to avoid the
Wikipedia information search.
Check out the different types of materials here.
PowerSearch Plus 11
Read full text article online
without having to pay per article.
Have the article read to you or put it on
your IPod!
Have the article
translated into another
language!
Email the article to
read later.
Tools in the Articles
This is the book the article comes from.
PowerSearch Plus 12
Browse to an issue!
Have the magazine
emailed to you as soon as it’s
delivered!
This tells you it is in full text.
Publication Page
Search within all of the back issues.
When you do a publication search for Newsweek you get this “About this Publication” page
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: http://www.gale.cengage.com/media/training/LibraryVWeb/LibraryVWeb.htm
• From Oregon’s CLIP project: http://www.clipinfolit.org/tutorials/what-is-a-library-database
• Want to learn more about using specific Gale database? Visit Gale’s tutorial page: http://www.gale.cengage.com/guidedtour/index.htm.