Competency 8: Multimedia

The purpose of the study was to explore fourth-grade pupils (aged 10 to 11) attitudes towards reading and writing. The boys attitudes towards reading were significantly more negative than the attitudes of the girls. They liked mostly comics and humorous books; adventure books were favourites of the girls. Poetry did appeal neither to the male nor the female pupils. Most pupils, especially boys, did not like to read aloud. Even many fluent and motivated readers felt embarrassed when doing it. I found this relevant to my interest in motivating reluctant readers.

www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003818.htm

Competency 7: Social Networking: Ning

My area of interest is Public School Library so when I found a Ning site called Texas School Librarians, I knew I found a great resource for my job as a future school librarian.

http://txschoollibrarians.ning.com/profile/CathyP

Competency 6: Search 4 Browsing in LexisNexis

Browsing in LexisNexis

Motivate reluctant readers: (used power search, natural language, previous years, US newspapers and wire)

This search generated 33 hits. I felt like article #6 was informative to my query.
6 At the library: Tips to boost reluctant summer readersTulsa World (Oklahoma), July 22, 2007 Sunday, Entertainment; Pg. H8, 533 words, Staff Reports

I spent some time at the Tulsa Library to see how they motivate reluctant readers. I thought they had some very interesting information on their website. http://kids.tulsalibrary.org/adults/newsletter.htm

Regarding this particular search, I was surprised that hit #6 was the most relevant to my search topic. I like LexisNexis because I'm able to review newspaper articles from other cities around the U.S.

Competency 6: Search 3 Citation Pearl Growing in Academic Search Premier

Citation Pearl Growing in Academic Search Premier

I used (reluctant or remedial) and (elementary or primary school) and (interest or motivate) which produced 8 hits:

I felt like 5 of the 8 hits were relevant to my search.

The first hit was very relevant:

1. PROMOTING an Addiction to Reading. By: Preddy, Leslie B.. School Library Media Activities Monthly, Oct2007, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p24-26, 3p, 1bw; (AN 26881383)

It looked like a great match, but to be on the safe side, I used the "find more like this one" tab to see if I would get more relevant information. That produced 51989 more hits and none of them were remotely close to my first search. I went back to my original 8 hits.

I effectively located information that would relate to my topic regarding motivating reluctant readers. This was very relevant information that I would use again in the future to provide me with accurate and plentiful information on motivating reluctant readers.