The Reading Culture Advantage: Assessing Opportunity for Change and Impact

Module 5 of The Reading Culture Advantage webinar series

Where should you start when building a reading culture? And how do you know if your strategies are working?

Join us for this practical, hands-on webinar focusing on two critical steps of the Reading Culture Action Plan: Step 2: Assess the Opportunity for Change and Step 8: Monitor and Strengthen the Change Process.

Building on our 2025 statewide book study of Dr. Margaret Merga’s Creating a Reading Culture in Primary and Secondary Schools, this session explores essential assessment strategies to understand where you are now and track meaningful change over time.

Participants will explore new tools created for assessing reading culture and engagement and collaborate with peers to plan next steps for implementation.

Webinar recording.

Interested in earning 1 contact hour of Continuing Education credit? Please complete the Module 5 Reflection.

Please note: Module 5 builds on the learning of Modules 1-4. Missed any of these webinars? Watch the recordings here or register here to take the self-paced, asynchronous course, The Reading Culture Advantage (participants can earn 4 Continuing Education contact hours).

Module 5 Resources:  We are in the process of creating accessible documents.  Please reach out to Suzi Tonini if you need alternate versions of any of these resources.

• Foundational Text:  Creating a Reading Culture in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Practical Guide by Margaret Merga
• Assessment Tool #1:  Would I Like Being a Student In My Own Library? (Colorado State Library)
• Assessment Tool #2:  Student Reading Engagement Survey (Colorado State Library)
• Assessment Tool #3:  Schoolwide Reading Culture Review Tool (Colorado State Library)
• Quantitative and Qualitative Data for Evaluating Reading Culture (Colorado State Library)
• Would I Like Being a Student In My Own Classroom? (Pernille S. Ripp)
• Why Don’t You Read? A Lesson for Students (Pernille S. Ripp)
• Google Looker Studio Infographic Tutorial (James Allen)