READING CLASSROOM
About the Instructor
Jamie Hoek was born and raised in Grass Valley, California and is the oldest of three children. Jamie is a Graduate of Chadron State College and has called Chadron her home for the last 3 years.
Curriculum
Jamie is the new Reading Teacher for the Red Cloud Middle School. For the Middle School students, Reading Class makes up half of the Language Arts Curriculum. Students work on reading books both as a class and in small groups, working on comprehension which including increasing background knowledge, making predictions, questioning, visualizing and increasing vocabulary.
The classes are beginning with a review of literary elements, so that they understand setting, character and plot. Some of the books the students will be reading this year are different from the past. Jamie has been working with the social studies teacher and for the first semester students will be reading books about the topics that they are studying in social studies. It is Jamie’s hope that by working with the other disciplines the students will have better understanding as well as retain the given information.
If you have any questions please feel free to email Jamie at jhoek@redcloudschool.org. "After all our goal is to make the students the best readers they can be.”
Book Recommendations
| BOOK TITLE |
AUTHOR |
| A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) |
Lemony Snicket |
| Abarat |
Clive Barker |
| Because of Winn-Dixie |
Kate DiCamillo |
| Brian's Winter |
Gary Paulson |
| Captain Underpants (series) |
Dave Pilkey |
| Charlie Bone Books |
Jenny Nimmo |
| Gimme a Kiss |
Christopher Pike |
| Goosebumps |
R. L. Stine |
| Hades |
Adele Richardson |
| Hank the Cowdog |
John R. Erickson |
| Harry Potter |
J.K. Rowling |
| Holes |
Louis Sachar |
| Jelly Belly |
Robert Kimmel Smith |
| Locked in Time |
Lois Duncan |
| Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
J.R.R. Tolkein |
| Michael Jordan |
Richard Brenner |
| Number the Stars |
Lois Lowery |
| Ransom |
Lois Duncan |
| Rumble Fish |
S.E. Hinton |
| Shiloh |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| Soldier Boys |
Dean Hughes |
| Spiderwick Chronicles (series) |
Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi |
| The BFG |
Roald Dahl |
| The Black Stallion |
Walter Farley |
| The Boxer |
Charlotte Wilcox |
| The Contender |
Robert Lipsyte |
| The Golden Compass |
Philip Pullman |
| The Heartland Series |
Lauren Brooke |
| The Hobbit |
J.R.R. Tolkein |
| The Killer Angels |
Michael Shaara |
| The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe |
C.S. Lewis |
| The Mississippi Bridge |
Mildred D. Taylor |
| The Other Side of Dark |
Joan Lowery Nixon |
| The Outsiders |
S.E. Hinton |
| Wait till Helen Comes |
Mary Downing Hahn |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends |
Shel Silverstein |
| Joan Lowery Nixon books |
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| Lois Duncan books |
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| John Belairs books |
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