I used WorldCat for my building block search. I began my search with "adolescent or teen or teenag*" and received 207,318 hits. I then searched "males or boys or gender" and received 306,337 hits. "literacy or reading or phonics" received 599,641 hits. For my 4th set, I combined these three sets with the Boolean operator "And" and produced 344 hits. I further refined my search by limiting the results to the past five years and English language only. It came back with 164 hits which, besides some book reviews, looked promising. A couple of relevant hits were:Teaching reading to black adolescent males :
closing the achievement gap /
Author: Tatum, Alfred W.
Publication: Portland, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers, 2005
Document: English : Author: Welch, Rollie James, 1957- Publication: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007
Document: English : Book 
Internet Resource
This search was reasonably useful but, compared to successive fractions, it seems like going
the long way to get to the same destination. I much preferred searching within results than
creating three different search sets and then combining them. It does give you the broadest
search to start with, however, so you have an idea of how many relevant documents there are
in the database.
Internet ResourceThis search was reasonably useful but, compared to successive fractions, it seems like going
the long way to get to the same destination. I much preferred searching within results than
creating three different search sets and then combining them. It does give you the broadest
search to start with, however, so you have an idea of how many relevant documents there are
in the database.
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