Read Outside Your Bubble

Expand Your Bookshelf, Expand Your World
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-394-24463-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 282 g

Learn how to foster student engagement, cultivate empathy, and encourage a love of reading by bringing diverse literature into the classroom

Using an instructional coaching framework, Read Outside Your Bubble introduces teachers to a new mindset for helping students develop literacy and become lifelong readers. By building an accessible and inclusive literacy curriculum, you can pique students' interest in the world outside their #bubbles. “Bubbles” are identity markers of race, religion, orientation, and socio-economic status. In this book, instructional coach and parent Nita Creekmore takes a conversational and research-backed approach to introducing her L.E.A.P framework, which guides you through the process of crafting your curriculum. You'll also learn how to develop lesson plans that increase compassion, cultivate empathy, and encourage a love of reading and history. - Follow the research-backed L.E.A.P. framework to choose diverse reading selections for K-12 classrooms
- Learn step-by-step techniques for creating an inclusive curriculum that engages students in literacy
- Help turn students into lifelong learners by encouraging them to think beyond their own circumstances and think critically about the world around them
- Teach students how to compare and contrast themes and ideas across content areas

The primary audience is teachers, curriculum coaches, curriculum specialists, instructional coaches, and homeschooling parents will appreciate the practical, future-minded approach in Read Outside Your Bubble. This book brings diversity into classrooms in a way that will prepare students to participate in the creation of a more inclusive world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Creekmore, Nita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik Lernschwierigkeiten, Legasthenie, ADHS

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Charnaie Gordon xiii

My Why xv

What Does the Title of This Book Mean? xvi

Why I Wrote This Book xvii

The Pathway xviii

What You Will Find in This Book xix

Let’s Reflect xxi

Chapter 1: What Is a Bubble? 1

Bubble 1

Reading and Your Bubble 2

Making a Change 3

Why Should We Read Beyond Our Bubbles? 5

Beginning to Step Outside Your Bubble 6

Let’s Reflect 12

Chapter 2: Expand Your Relationship Bubble: Relationships and Reading 13

Relationships 13

Community Is the Heart 14

Let’s Cultivate Love in Our Community—In Our Relationships 15

Community Meetings + Reading + Connecting Outside Your Bubbles 16

Getting to Know the Students in Your Learning Community 17

Let’s Visualize 18

Knowing Your Students as Readers 20

Expand Your Everyday 23

Let’s Reflect 24

Chapter 3: The LEAP Framework for Inclusive Texts 25

Framework 25

The Learning Ladder 27

The LEAP Framework 32

Learning Using the LEAP Framework 35

Let’s Reflect 39

Chapter 4: Learning: Seeing Mirrors with Inclusive Text 41

Learn 41

Let’s Visualize 42

The Importance of Mirrors 43

The Reflection of Mirrors Cultivate Engagement 44

Cultivating Active Readers 45

Creating an Inclusive Environment 45

Let’s Reflect 53

Chapter 5: Learning: Opening Windows with Inclusive Text 55

Learn More 55

Let’s Visualize 56

Why Are Windows Important? 57

Looking Out the Window Cultivates Engagement 57

Cultivating Active Readers through Windows 58

Creating an Environment of Windows That Cultivates Compassion 59

Let’s Reflect 66

Chapter 6: Learning: Gliding through Sliding-Glass Doors with Inclusive Text 67

Learn Some More 67

Let’s Visualize 68

Why Are Sliding-Glass Doors Important? 69

Gliding through Sliding-Glass Doors Cultivates Engagement 71

Cultivating Active Readers through Sliding-Glass Doors 73

Creating an Environment That Promotes Sliding-Glass Doors When Reading 74

Readers Often Forget about Sliding-Glass Doors 77

Let’s Reflect 78

Contents xi

Chapter 7: Equitable: Integrating Inclusive Texts in Equitable Ways 79

Equity 79

The Impact of Inclusive Texts and Equity 80

Whose Book Is Not Displayed? 82

Integrate Inclusive Texts Equitably 83

Community and Equity 86

Let’s Reflect 87

Chapter 8: Access: Getting Inclusive Texts into Everyone’s Hands 89

Access 89

Ways to Get Access to Inclusive Books 91

Make Teaching and Learning with Inclusive Texts Accessible 95

Let’s Reflect 97

Chapter 9: Purposeful and Professional Learning: Building Skill and Routine to Transform Teaching and Learning 99

Purposeful and Professional Learning 99

Before Professional Learning 100

Planning for Professional Learning 102

Integrating Inclusive Texts Professional Learning Pathways 108

Take Time to Reflect on Professional Learning 111

Continue the Professional Learning 112

Let’s Reflect 113

Chapter 10: Banned Books = VIBs (Very Important Books) 115

Banned? 115

A Reframe: VIBs (Very Important Books) 117

Using Our Voices 118

Teaching Today with Book Bans Swirling Around 119

What’s Next with VIBs? 124

Let’s Reflect 125

Epilogue 127

References and Resources 129

About the Author 131

Index 133

Über Autor(innen)

Nita Creekmore is a distinguished educator and instructional coach consultant. As the founder of Love. Teach. Bless., Nita has dedicated her career to enhancing literacy education through diverse texts and supporting teachers in their instructional journey. She is also the co-owner (with her husband Michael) of Creekmore Conversations, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in building school relationships and parent education. Visit www.love-teach-bless.com to learn more about her work or follow the handle @LoveTeachBless on Instagram.