Research Guides: TEDU 561: Reading Foundations: Research Project

Search Term Examples

Topics / Concepts:

"phonemic awareness"
phonics
"reading fluency"
vocabulary
"reading comprehension"
literacy
reading
"reading skills"
"teaching methods"

"english language learners"
"limited english speaking"
"non english speaking"
bilingualism
"bilingual students"

"learning disabilities"
[name of disability or disorder]
"reading difficulties"
"reading intervention*"
"writing intervention*"

Resources for the Research Project / Presentation

ERIC should provide you with the articles you need from scholarly journals for your annotated bibliography. However, some of you may have topics that are closely related to the psychology of learning, so you might want to search PsycINFO as well.

1. EDUCATION: ERIC

ERIC via ProQuest
Content produced by the U.S. Department of Education, 1966-present. The premier education database addressing all aspects of education, including theories of teaching and learning. (ProQuest)
ERIC via ed.gov
Click on the Thesaurus tab (it will turn green) to browse and/or search for terms to use in your ERIC searches. The Thesaurus will help you discover synonyms.

TEDU 561 - ERIC (project)
Using the ERIC Thesaurus and searching ERIC (ProQuest) for the Research Project

2. Psychology: PsycINFO

PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)
Includes many articles on reading readiness, reading development, word recognition, phonological awareness.

Tips for Searching PsycINFO