McQuade LibGuides: EDU 5580 -Teaching Content to English Language Learners (Sawyer): Online Databases

Links to Sampling of Professional Journals

Journal of Children's Literature
Education Research Complete (2011 - present)
Language Arts
ProQuest Central (1989 - present)
Access in JSTOR (1976 - present with a 4 year full text delay)
The Reading Teacher
Wiley Online Library (2004 - present).
Access in JSTOR (1951 -present with a 4 year full text delay)
The Horn Book Magazine
Gale Literature Resource Center (1993 - present).
Note: Use the search box in the upper right corner to search for your book in the magazine.

Recommended Databases

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Biography - Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
Find biographies of people, searching by occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth and death date, and of course by name. Courtesy Massachusetts Library System.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
This database of award-winning children's literature can be searched by a number of useful categories, such as the gender of the protagonist, the age of the reader, and the book's setting or genre.

Education Research Complete - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
Search this comprehensive collection of journals, books and conference papers on all aspects and levels of education.
ERIC - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains references to educational and education-related journals and reports with increasing full text.
Literary Reference Center - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
Find plot summaries, synopses, overviews, literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, poetry, short stories and more. An alternate graphical interface is also available.

Literary Resource Center w/MLA
Access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors

Literature Resource Center - Gale This link opens in a new window
Find author biographies and critical analyses from every age and literary discipline, from many Gale sources including Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Novelist Plus K-8 - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
Fiction and narrative nonfiction recommendations aimed at young readers through 8th grade,

Proquest Education
Access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text.

Teacher Reference Center - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
Find full text articles in 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

MACKsearch This link opens in a new window
Find books, ebooks, streaming videos, DVDs, articles, reports and more from a wide selection of McQuade's databases, the Library Catalog and beyond.

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