Useful Links Connected with Resources:

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Editor of Babyzone.com’s “A Celebration of Reading”
Join us each month to learn about the most delicious, tantalizing books to read with children. Especially written for parents but also good resources for librarians and teachers, this special page shares five new titles each month for birth through 3rd grade and one chapter book. Visit http://babyzone.com/features/content/default.asp?TopicID=9194

If you’d like to be considered as a guest book reviewer for the “Celebration of Reading” webpage, contact: The Literacy Ambassador via cathypm@babyzone.com.

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Frequent contributor to:

www.literacyconnections.com - a website dedicated to information for volunteer reading tutors

www.cindycupp.com - a commercial website for a beginning reading series (K-1 or higher grades for special education and early intervention/high risk students). Cathy Puett Miller contributes with data and research about the results of this comprehensive and effective program.

www.educationworld.com - a monthly contributor in the professional development area, Mrs. Miller focuses on the larger picture of reading while giving educators plenty of practical ideas to use in the classroom. Enter her full name in the search engine to see her latest articles.

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Great Reading Websites:

http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/ - The Children’s Picture Book Database, a terrific source for picture books with over 5,000 listed. This site is a bibliography for designing literature-based thematic units for all disciplines (matching unit themes for teaching, interest areas and just plain fun).

http://www.readingrockets.org - a terrific PBS site which provides information to help children learning to read and those that struggle.

http://www.trelease-on-reading.com - Read aloud guru Jim Trelease offers book reviews, advice and up-to-date articles on what’s new in the world of reading.