Guest readers from the community can be invited to join in the activities. Better than all of the above is when the efforts are ongoing and garner support for reading programs all year long. The suggestions given can be woven together to work with the teaching team's units of study. The most successful programs involve many participants. School administrators should become a part of school programs to help emphasize reading.
Administrative support is sometimes the key to turning a good program into a great program.
Administrators should be the cheerleaders in promotion of reading. If the administrators participate and model good reading practices, they can be tremendous help in boosting the importance of reading. The newspaper is a teaching tool that can be used in all subject areas. Newspaper in Education Week is a time to emphasize using newspapers, but newspapers can be used all year long. As a teaching team begins work on a new unit, the daily newspaper, as well as newspapers from the past should not be overlooked as a great source of information.