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
Elizabeth – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas.
Kristin – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
This course was inspiring and provided practical resources/ideas you can use in your classroom to encourage a love for reading.
Clarissa – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great course! Learned so many different ways to enchance the love of reading!
Leah – NEW KNOXVILLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought this course had a great amount of information and ideas. Some of the ideas were maybe too young for my middle school students, but all of the ideas could be tweaked to meet classroom needs. Thanks!
Jessica – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
It was a very useful course to come up with literacy ideas in your classroom or building.
Emily – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
This course had great ideas regarding building a love for reading for our students!
Cassidy – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
The course has very neat ideas.
Sunshine – MOHAWK LOCAL (verified owner) –
I loved all of the ideas the presenter had on how to make reading engaging and worth the time of both student and teacher.
Teresa – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
The course gave a wide variety of ideas and suggestions to help any student increase their love for reading. A multitude of examples were given to encourage student participation and growth that could actually be done in or around the classroom.
Teresa – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was fantastic. The presenter introduced many reading activities that will lure in the students into loving reading by making it hands on, interacting and making it their own.
Roxanne – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was vert informational. I liked the idea of a wish list in order to know students interest in reading.
Beth – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –
A lot of ideas for younger students to make reading enjoyable and develop life-long readers
Nereida – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Stacy – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Diana – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It gave a lot of good insight on what students need to become good readers and interested readers.
Leticia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I like all the different ways to get students to ready by making it fun.
Luis – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great video and extremely educational.
Francisca – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It was a great course. There were a lot of ideas shared to encourage the love for reading.
Wendy – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I real loved this course. I learned alot of ways i can inspire my students to enjoy reading. I only wished I could have hard copy so i can refer back to them time to time.
Mary – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I really liked the different ways to make reading more enjoyable.
Flor – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
loved it! so many great ideas
Juan – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great
Lorenzo – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Amazing ideas for developing interest in reading, while maintaining focus.
Sandra – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
The course was interesting as it provided many fun ways on how to help students become more engaging in reading.
Shelley – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas to get kids reading!
ROBERTO – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very good course. Instructore seems very passionate and inspirational about books and reading.
Jessica – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Melissa – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great Ideas for Avid readers!
Maria – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to spark student interest in reading.
Jenna – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Overall, I enjoyed this course and think it offered a lot of great ideas and perspectives on how to get students excited about reading. Based on the age range and students I have, I don’t think many of these ideas would be very applicable to what my students need, but they are great ideas to consider and think about ways to modify them for my students’ needs.
Elsa – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I really appreciate Shannon sharing her knowledge. I love her fresh ideas on encouraging our diverse readers! There’s so options to choose from you can’t go wrong. I wish she offered more trainings.
Vanessa – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course provided a lot of useful information.
Veronica – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
There were a lot of great ideas.
Erika – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This training was very informative. I really enjoyed all her strategies. I loved that they can be interactive.
Leslie – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It was well done.
Kristi – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
An excellent presentation for teachers of younger readers.
Jessica – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Interesting ideas to encourage reading
Maria – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful with all of the ideas given to make reading more fun for students.
Melissa – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
I liked that it didn’t have as many areas to input answers as some I’ve taken through here.
Lacey – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This course had so many great ideas for inspiring young readers. I might be mistaken, but when I registered for the course I thought it said it was for elementary and secondary. If I had known how geared this was for elementary I would have chosen a different course. It did give me some ideas for high school readers though.
Wilma – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
I like the many different an fun ideas she has
Ana Lorelly – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Informative. Gives a lot of fun ideas to help students develop a love for reading.
Ruby – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
great reading ideas
Michele – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course had an immense variety of ways to engage students into learning to love how to read and how we as teachers can incorporate them into our classrooms.
Erica – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed this presentation!!! She had great ideas, suggestions to involve and engage all our students. She gave us many tips on how to acquire our own libraries and make it fun for our students.
Lisette – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very informative
Alyssa – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –
This gave awesome tips!
Dee Ann – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting and informative. Shannon offers so many different ways to get our students interested in becoming lifelong readers.
Claudia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great useful information and ideas to get kids to read and stay motivated.