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.