Selinsgrove Area
Intermediate School
Support
Staff
Fred Hooper (Title 1
Reading)
The goals of the SAIS Title 1
Reading program are to:
- Create lifelong
readers
- Foster a desire to
read
- Motivate students to read
while teaching skills and strategies
- Reach students at all ability
levels
- Support and reinforce
classroom instruction
- Promote parent
involvement
You can contact me by e-mail at
fhooper@seal-pa.org
Here are some of my favorite
reading-related websites:
Authors
at SAIS
Books
and Bookstores
- Advanced
Book Exchange - a searchable
database for the "world's largest source of out-of-print
material"
- Amazon.com
- Earth's biggest selection of...well, you know!
- Barnes
and Noble - great selection; good
prices; user-friendly search engine.
- Bibliofind
- provides access to 8,000,000 titles of old, used, and rare
books. 3500 booksellers around the world make this the "largest
and possibly the most interesting bookselling site on the
Web."
- Book
Rescue - 50,000+ mostly
out-of-print titles for children, all for sale; not
inexpensive.
- Edward
R. Hamilton, Bookseller - a
massive and searchable collection of discounted books including
new publications, publishers' overstocks and closeouts, and
remainders.
- Fetch
Book. Info - a quick way to
compare prices of new and used books; scan 126 bookstores and 60,000 sellers in a
single click.
- Library
of Congress - Are you searching
for a list of books by a certain author? a list of books related
to a specific topic? an ISBN? You'll likely find your answer in
the searchable databases of this website.
-
BookFinder.com - a search engine than
scans top book databases to find new, used, rare, and out-of-print
books.
- Powell's
Books - a searchable database for
1,000,000+ new and used books; very reasonable prices on their
sale books (click on "Great deals on really good books" once you
get to their homepage).
Children's
Literature
- Aaron
Shepard's Reader's Theater Page -
On this page, a noted children's author offers his resources for
reader's theater, including the acclaimed multicultural script
series Reader's Theater Editions. If you're looking for a perfect
combination of education and fun, here it is!
- Booktalks
- over 1200 plot synopses of books for children; includes interest
level and reading level when such information is readily available
in standard sources.
- Carol
Hurst's Children's Literature
Site - a collection of reviews of
great books for kids, and collections of books and activities
about particular subjects.
- Children's
Literature in the United Kingdom
- a mailing list in which teachers, academics, researchers,
writers, and publishers working in the field of children's
literature can discuss issues of current interest.
- Children's
Literature Web Guide - a list of
essential links covering all aspects of children's
literature
- Fairrosa
Cyber Library of Children's
Literature: a well organized site
with links to authors and illustrators, booklists, discussions,
reviews, on-line books, etc.
- Internet
Public Library - The "Kidspace"
features a collection of short stories, myths, fables, poetry,
comics, magazines for children.
Reading
Instruction
- Education
Place - Houghton Mifflin's
educational publications website.
- Harcourt
Trophies - the basal reading series in use at SAIS.
-
Invitations
to Literacy - resources and ideas
for teaching the Houghton Mifflin basal reading series.
- Learning
to Read - a list of links that
provides resources for language arts and reading
research.
- Read Naturally - the reading fluency program in use in the reading lab at SAIS.
-
Read,
Write, and Think - Sponsored by
the International Reading Association and the National Council of
Teachers of English, this website provides access to the highest
quality practices and resources in reading and language arts
instruction.
Parental
Involvement
- Jim
Trelease on Reading - a complete
guide to Jim Trelease's work; particular emphasis is placed on
reading aloud to children; intended for anyone interested in
children's reading and education.
- LD
Online - the interactive guide to
learning disabilities for parents, teachers,and
children.
- Parents'
Place - a parents' guide to the
Houghton Mifflin Invitations to
Literacy basal reading series in
use at SAIS.
- Pennsylvania
Department of Education, Welcome
Parents! - A list of links to
websites that might be of interest to parents; includes such sites
as Parent's Guide to the PSSA, Parents Guide to Pennsylvania
Academic Standards and No Child Left Behind.
Phonemic
Awareness
Professional
Organizations