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

Using an instructional coaching framework, Read Outside Your Bubble: Expand Your Bookshelf, Expand Your World  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, as an instructional coach and parent I use a conversational and research-backed approach to introducing my 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 homes and classrooms in a way that will prepare students to participate in the creation of a more inclusive world.

I would love for you to order my book! I cannot wait to connect with you even more! Check me out on Instagram @loveteachbless! Connect soon!

Excerpt from my Breaking Boundaries webinar!

Expand Your World Through Inclusive Books

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In my 5th grade classes, we are studying informational text. We are reading about Meg Lowman’s study of the rainforest @canopymeg. The book is entitled, The Most Beautiful Roof in the World, by Kathryn Lasky. This book is about the work of scientist Meg Lowman and her sons as they study the brilliant and vivid world of the rainforest canopy and its myriad of exotic creatures, including spider monkeys, bats, and vipers. In the book, the author also discusses the People of the Rainforest.

Y’all know me, I also love bringing in picture books to connect to the mentor text. It is so important! I purchased, Zonia’s Rainforest, which is written by Juana Martinez-Neall @juanamartinezn . This beautiful and insightful book is about Zonia, a young Asháninka girl whose home is with those she loves in the Peruvian Amazon. She spends carefree time with her animal friends of the rain forest until one day she visits a place where the forest has been destroyed.

One of my students said, “that’s where my family is from” my heart bursted. She began to explain to the class about how the land used to be more vast, but it was smaller now because it’s been taken away—the kids listened intently while she explained. She discussed the animals from the book and shared what a river dolphin was! Which was her favorite animal.

We read the Author’s Note which gave us more information about the Asháninka People and the endangered Rainforests.

This is why I bring in diverse and inclusive books into my lessons! This right here is it! This is the bubble expansion experience! 🫧

I write about this even more in my book, Read Outside My Bubble: Expand Your Bookshelf, Expand Your World. Preorder it anywhere books are sold!

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What are you truly using mentor texts for?

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Yes, we can teach standards with mentor texts. Of course, please, align them and use them purposefully and intentionally in your planning. You know, I’m an instructional coach so, I’m like, yes, do that. [continue reading]

However, use of mentor texts like picture books (at any level), poetry, essays, excerpts of essays, multimedia sources, speeches, quotes, etc… can ignite change. It can ignite change not just because you read them to or with your children (AKA your scholars 🖤). It’s deeper than that. [continue reading]

Mentor texts can ignite change by your open-ended questioning, questioning that helps your scholars to dig deeper into their thinking, dig into their connections or lack of connection they have with the text. It allows for thoughtful discussion with the text. Discussion together in your safe classroom community.

Mentor texts give students opportunities to use their voices, offer their opinions and engage in thoughtful and respectful discourse.

Mentor texts can help students to remove themselves from their “bubbles” and read the world 🌎. They help to expose them to lives, cultures that may be different from their own and yet the same—and respect it, honor it.

It can teach students the power of reading and how reading and writing can help to change the world. It gives them—your scholars—power.

Power to think.
Power to use their voice.
Power to ignite change.

And you can intertwine the “standards”. 🤪

Students first though. 🥰

-LTB 🖤