Competency 6: Building Block Search

Search Topic: What tools do librarians use to encourage reading for pleasure?
Database: ERIC
S1 = tools or concepts or strategies = 232, 688 hits
S2 = encourage children or motivate students or prompt adolescents = 1, 482 hits
S3 = reading for pleasure or reading for enjoyment or reading for amusement or recreational reading = 1, 417 hits

S4 = S1 AND S2 AND S3 = 5 hits

Using the search strategy worksheet provided, I brainstormed a list of synonms to try and rinder better search results. After completing my building block search I ended up with 5 hits.

Of those 5 hits I chose: Sports Splash: A Handbook of Reading Activities for Use with Children. A Fun with Reading Book. Thomas, Carol H. 1983, 120 pp, 0-89774-000-9

This is the first search strategy I tried and I liked it becuase it forced me to think of synonyms for the terms I was using in my searches. I feel that search has opened my eyes to new ways of refining my keywords to yield better, more specific hits.