DeBrum T. Melander
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #2
Book Seer
Book Seer is one of several Effective Literacy in a blogging website called http://blog.whooosreading.org/reading-websites-that-engage-students/. In the homepage, a banner on the top of this website reads, “In a world where choices are not A, B, C, and D, make reading authentic again. Bring WhooosReading.org to your school”. Such catchy slogan should encourage more of us, educators, to start using these types of sites to encourage and enhance our students reading habits and skills.
Book Seer.com is a free and simple website that anybody can use to find their favorite books to read. Because of its great variety of information of books gathered from Amazon.com, children and adults can find their favorite story book or novel in this website. More importantly, the website is free and you do not have to fill out any membership requirements that can be so tiresome to fill out. All you need to do is type in the website and it will get you to the homepage, (WhooosReading.org), where it will give you a list of effective reading sites including the Book Seer.
Book Seer.com encourages children of all ages to become proactive readers. Its simple and quick way to get a book, allows readers to get a list of recommended books when they type in the title and author of the book that they are searching for. The recommended books are from book collection from other users. In addition, a user can create and customize their own book collection using photos of books that they have read and collected for others to read as well.
Book Seer.com should be useful in the classroom where educators can encourage students to use the site to search for books for their pleasure reading as well as their book report assignment. The convenience of not visiting the library to borrow books will encourage students to search for the book that they desire to read right at their fingertips. In addition, readers do not have to get a library membership card to read their favorite story book or novel. Readers can also keep the books for their collection with no charge for overdue books.
With this type of literacy websites available for readers at their fingertips, readers do not have to leave their homes to visit bookstores or libraries just to pick up a book to read. Book Seer.com and other similar websites are great tools that we can use to help our community to become “hooked on phonics”.
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