To demonstrate this search strategy I first went to the ERIC database. In searching for articles on motivating students to read I broke my search down the following ways:
S1: motivate
S2: children OR youth OR students
S3: read
This search produced 316 results. I looked closely at the first ten results and all but two were relevant to the specific topic I was looking for.
I chose to look more closely at result number 3, "Reading Incentives that Work: No-Cost Strategies to Motivate Kids to Read and Love It!"
Overall, I feel this search did a very good job of locating information that was relevant to my topic. Even hits that appeared that I did not find useful were simply because they focused on students at a higher education level rather than in the younger grades. To narrow my search even more I could have added an S4: elementary OR primary.
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