Description
Shannon Anderson has discovered many ways to spark excitement for getting and reading books during her 25 years of teaching at the elementary level. Explore over 20 strategies you can use to spark a love of reading for years to come in your classroom, library, or home!
In this 1-hour course, you will learn:
- How to pique students’ reading interests
- How to help students become engaged in reading
- How to support students with reading difficulties
- Exciting strategies to inspire a lifelong love for reading





Claudia – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
There are many ideas to get your students excited about reading!
Emmanuel – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
This course has given me some GREAT ideas on how to inspire more reading from my students!
Yvette – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent source of ideas for getting kids to read.
Brenda – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Loved many of the ideas for sparking reading
Elisa – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course is very informative and has many ideas teachers can use to engage students in reading.
Cesar – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
Is a good course!!
Shannyn – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –
This course has a great number of ideas and examples that can be used by a variety of teachers. I do wish there were more secondary examples, as much of this is more elementary and middle.
Maria – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
GREAT ideas
Jennifer – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –
This course gave me new ideas/ways to incorporate PLEASURE reading into the school day as well as academic reading.
Jamie – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course!
Megan – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
I think that this course had a lot of ideas that are simple enough to implement immediately.
Desiree – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that can easily be implemented. She also reminded me of some of the things I’ve done in the past, or can relate to things I’m currently doing to amp up my reading time.
kelly – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas that can be used at multiple grade levels
Norma – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
University-Level Certificate Programs
Kaylee – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting and inspiring course
DOUGLAS – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of easy to implement ideas.
Anna – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very informative video. Shannon Anderson is very knowledgable in reading and why it’s important to focus more on it.
MARIA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
Great. Gives suggestions about the different ways to keep students engaged in what they read.
RODRIGO – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
great course too compliment reading
Melanie – NEDERLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot of great information from this course!
ROSA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
I highly enjoyed this. I love literature and having my students read a variety of books.
Katherine – NEDERLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This would be helpful to new teachers. I have used or heard of many of these suggestions before.
CHANTAL – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
YESSICA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it
ROXANNE – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
highly recommend
Evelyn – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
ALEJANDRA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and helpful.
Hilda – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
She was absolutely awesome. One can feel her passion in helping students become life-long readers.
Donita – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to vary reading and engage interest
Jody – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave many usable ideas for building students’ love for reading.
WENDY – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
Fun and helpful tools for students to enjoy reading more.
CYNTHIA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
This course really helps to understand the importance of instilling a love for reading because it helps students become better learners and more confident students.
Glen – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
Good ideas
THELMA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
highly recommended
Leticia – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I saw a lot of cool ideas to implement in my classroom.
Jennifer – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Presenter shared great ideas to implement in the classroom to get students excited about reading.
SAHARAI – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
it was very interesting and informative
SARA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas
Christina – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Great course and provides many great ideas to spark student reading interest.
Ashley – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
goodi deas
Aide – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
I think this training is beneficial if you want to know more on how to get your students excited about reading.
Alice – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course. The teacher provided many suggestions that can be used immediately.
Eleazar – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
MARIA D – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
excellent source of ideas to foster reading in our children
Amanda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
great ideas to enhance student’s love of reading
Margarita – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and informative session.
CRISELDA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
I like the suggestions offered for spreading the love of reading. There are great ideas. I started thinking of how I can adapt some for middle school students. I look forward to trying some of these ideas.
Abbey – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
For younger elementary school teachers. Lots of options to increase interest in reading, but many ideas are what seasoned teachers have already seen or do.
LETICIA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –
It had great ideas that I might want to incorporate in my reading time to make reading more enjoyable for my students.
Beverly – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the ideas for reading that she was giving. I would like to implement some of these in my classroom.