Description
Reading for pleasure leads to improved reading comprehension, writing skills, vocabulary development, spelling, and grammar usage. So how do you instill a love of reading for the sake of reading? How do you get kids excited about the actual act of experiencing stories and reading text?
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
Carolee – ROSCOE COLLEGIATE ISD (verified owner) –
I would recommend this course! It gave me several ideas of things that I want to do this year to promote reading in my first grade classroom.
Veronica – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
The course described creative ways for children to become life long readers.
Marilynn – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
There were a wealth of interesting ideas to try to get students more excited about reading and the visuals of each that she had to go along with her talk as examples made the suggestions very clear.
Michele – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course and found it very helpful. It gave me useful ideas for encouraging students to read for pleasure, such as using book wish lists, graphic novels, and reading events like reading marathons. The course reminded me how important motivation and choice are in helping students develop a love of reading. As a teacher, I can use many of these strategies in my classroom. I would recommend this course to other educators who want practical ways to inspire students to read more.
Megan – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course had so many great ideas to help foster a love and excitement for reading.
Sarah – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I really appreciate the variety of ideas that teachers can take and apply right away in their classrooms and school communities!
Oswaldo – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Definitely a lot of strategies for how to get students interested in developing a more sustained interest in reading. I think a lot of her advice is centered around primary school though, not sure how feasible it would be to do some of these things in a secondary style setting, where teachers only see students for anywhere from 50-60 minutes a day and they have 7-8+ classes that they go to. A lot of teachers would also be working with tightly defined budgets and anything that was not curriculum-aligned would have a hard time getting approved by the district or department, even if it is something that would help students develop a closer affinity to reading.
Riley – BENJAMIN LOGAN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great information!
Hannah – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very intriguing. I have held a couple reading events at school and find it to always excite the students. I can’t wait to try a few of these others.