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- Sage KnowledgeReference Material in the form of subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks typically provide background essays, definitions, broad overviews of various topics, or other pertinent facts. A collection like Sage Knowledge can be very helpful for this sort of information.
Reading Journals
Assignment
10 or more peer reviewed/primary research articles from 2010-2020. Sample topics:
- ( minecraft ) AND ( literacy OR reading )
- ( "summer reading" ) AND ( "learning loss" ) -- you could start with "intervention" and then also try certain ones that might be mentioned specifically, unless "summer reading" is the intervention, then you may not need "intervention" ; you could also approach this as benefits of "summer reading" and combine a search with success
- ( nutrition ) AND ( "brain development" or "cognitive development" or "neural development" ) AND ( retention OR recall OR "knowledge activation" )
- ( "digital learning tool*" or "digital learning object*" ) AND ( elementary or primary or "k-5" or "childhood education" ) AND ( literacy OR reading ) -- you might need to just search "digital learning" or "learning objects" and/or define examples of DLT/DLOs
- academic vocabulary instruction ("academic vocabulary" or "academic language") for "dual language"
- series books ("monographic series" or "book series" or "children's literature in series") and struggling readers ("struggling readers" or "poor readers" or "reading difficulties")
- Reading interventions (intervention or remedia*) for young (child* or elementary or primary) struggling readers ("struggling readers" or "poor readers" or "reading difficulties")
- technology and literacy