BubbleUp Take5: Ways to Foster a Love of Reading

This week's BubbleUp Classroom Take5 is all about reading. Several of our featured articles focus on best practices (for teachers and parents) to help kids become life-long, proficient readers in an increasingly digital world.  In this post we explore why every class needs read-alouds, why it is important to engage in books that focus on life's challenges, why the key to raising a reader is showing that you value reading in your daily life, and more. Plus, we highlight reading challenges and resolutions for the year ahead. So what are you waiting for? Start reading...Take5.

This the future and reading is different than you remember (TeachThought). Terry Heick writes about the importance of valuing -- and perhaps even teaching -- our students lateral reading (which is exactly what we all do when we surf the web, clink links, search for answers to questions that pop into our heads). "Reading a text in isolation—especially a digital text in 2018–in isolation is dangerous."

Why we shouldn't shield children from darkness (TIME, 1/9/2018). A thoughful and insightful piece from author Matt de la Peña on why writing books that make children "feel" matters.

It takes a reader to grow a reader: when adults don't read, kids lose (Scholastic) If you're talking the talk, you have to walk the walk. Educators Jennifer LaGarde and Todd Nesloney emphasie how much it matters for teachers to develop their own reading lives.

Why every class needs read alouds (ASCD Education Update, 1/2018) Laura Vairas writes about the importance of reading aloud in school and how to incorporate it into your classroom instruction.

Reading challenges/resolutions for the new year (NeverEndingSearch, School Library Journal, 12/26/2017) It's not too late to set a reading resolution or to decide on a reading challenge to work on this year. Joyce Valenza shares lots of ways to get started.

Keep reading! 

​-Gretchen

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You might also like:

• On Writing, Teaching and Reading with Author Brian Herberger (January 30, 2017)
• BubbleUp Take5: Professional Growth through Summer Reading (June 24, 2016)
• Share Books to Connect with KIds (May 17, 2016)