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
Reading
Information
Literacy
Inquiry
Process
Critical Thinking
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%
50%
8th
45%
55%
12th
30%
70%
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
Exposition
Argumentation
and Persuasive
Texts
Procedural
text and
Documents
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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.c
om/nonfictionmatters
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
What are in Databases?
Everything you see here…
Academic
Journals
Magazines
Videos
Websites
Newspapers
Reference
Books
Statistics
Student Research Process
Wikipedia and
Google steps to
learn more.
Which database
should I use? Are
there other places
to go?
I can’t trust
Wikipedia but I
can trust Gale,
SIRS, NYT, etc.
Read the articles
and take notes on
what to write.
Choose keywords
from Wikipedia
to type into the
databases.
Pick out the
articles I want.
More
articles?
Write!
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.
Use the Limit
by to narrow
your search.
Check out the different
types of materials here.
Tools in the Articles
This is the book the
article comes from.
Email the
article to
read later.
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
Have the
article
translated into
another
language!
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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.
Browse to an issue!
PowerSearch Plus
Have the
magazine
emailed to you
as soon as it’s
delivered!
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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/LibraryVWe
b/LibraryVWeb.htm
• From Oregon’s CLIP project:
http://www.clipinfolit.org/tutorials/what-is-a-librarydatabase
• Want to learn more about using specific Gale database?
Visit Gale’s tutorial page:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/guidedtour/index.htm.