Saturday, October 18, 2008

Competency 6a-Specific Facet Search

Search Query:…learning early literacy skills and the effects on children’s reading development

Database: World Cat

27,828- (reading development) or (literacy development)

Specific Facet Search is where the searcher chooses the facet that will draw the fewest results. I guessed that the facet about early literacy would result in the fewest hits, and I was wrong. Here are my results.


27,828- (reading development) or (literacy development)

73,976-((early literacy) or literacy or reading) and ((skill or skills) or (strategy or strategies) or (method or methods))

2,227,841-children or child or kids not (teen or teenager)

Since the number of results was very large, I would continue with a building block search or a successive fractions search to narrow the results.

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