TPP 041: How to Foster a Love of Reading, with Dr. Colleen Carroll
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
So many times kids associate reading with something that provokes anxiety. So we've got to do everything we can to counter that and make reading associated with the positive, with love, with comfort, with joy.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and today's guest is Dr. Colleen Carroll, a writer, speaker, educator and coach of parents of struggling readers. Today, Colleen and I are talking all about reading, specifically why it's important that parents and caregivers foster a love of reading in our children and how exactly we can do that, especially if our kids are what we would identify as being reluctant readers. If you have a child who isn't naturally gravitating towards books, this episode will give you some super practical and simple strategies for creating an environment that supports a child in developing a true love of reading.
Before I get started with the show, I wanted to give a shout out to Tracy Paige Johnson and Sherry Bennett, two generous supporters of the Tilt Parenting podcast on our Patreon campaign. Thank you so much for your support of what we're doing. If you would like to join Tracy and Sherry through Patreon, you can make a small contribution that will go towards funding the production costs associated with this little podcast. please check out our Patreon page at www.patreon.com slash tilt parenting. You can support us for as little as $2 a month and every little bit makes a difference. Thank you so much for considering and for being a part of our community. And now let's get on with the show. Hey, everyone, Debbie Reber here with the Tilt Parenting Podcast.
And today's guest is a reading specialist who is on a mission to help kids everywhere foster a true love of reading. Dr. Colleen Carroll, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here today.
Well, I'm excited to be bringing this topic to the podcast. As I said in my introduction, you're a reading specialist. And on your website, you write, over the past 15 years, I've worked with hundreds of parents to take kids from being frustrated, sad, and close to giving up on reading to being excited to read. Now I want to help you. I just love the way that you put that. And as an avid reader myself and the mama of and probably even more avid reader and my son Asher, I really appreciate that mission. So before we get into exactly how you do that and what parents can do in their own worlds to foster that love of reading and their own kids, could you take a few minutes to tell us a little bit about who you are and how you came to be doing this work?
Absolutely. It's definitely been a journey. I began as a classroom teacher. I taught sixth grade, which is an elementary grade, and sort of following a middle school model. So I had kids sort of in that transitional year of growing out of elementary school and going into middle school. And I was also a reading teacher for that same grade level. And in that time, for about a decade or so, I really learned how to teach kids how to read, all kinds of kids. students with disabilities, students with English language learning challenges, and students who are below average, average, and above average readers. And so I really cut my teeth in the world of literacy, working with every kind of child and understanding what makes them tick as a reader.
I grew then into a principal's position and then became director of literacy and also assistant superintendent of schools over the course of my career and realized that That knowledge that I had gained, not all teachers had. It really was something that was almost unique to me in the way I pursued learning because it was such a passion for me. And I recognized that I really needed to get out and help teachers learn this. Then through that work, I realized that we're missing a huge component of the help and the resources in the world of teaching kids to read, that being the parent.
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