Read a lot!
	Read books you do not expect to enjoy..
	Read aloud to children every day.
	Read with others; belong to a community of readers.
	Read book reviews.  Be familiar with such periodicals as Booklist, School Library Journal, VOYA, and Horn Book.
	Read aloud ONLY when you have read the entire work.
	Question the bias you have toward certain genres or subjects.
	Question the value of insisting young readers should read mostly fiction.
	Question the value of promoting books through competitions.
	Participate in book selection in your school library.
	Participate in discussions on the threat of censors.
	Participate in YALS-B & an electronic listserv and other Internet resources.
	Participate in Texas Bluebonnet Award activities; suggest titles for consideration.
	Teach students to be critical readers by encouraging and respecting their personal responses to literature.
	Read a variety of literature and use your knowledge to help young readers connect with Bluebonnet titles and other books they may read.
	Use inventive displays of student responses to reading.
	Promote Bluebonnet titles to other teachers.
	Recommend works from Bluebonnet lists from previous years.
	Explain to parents that independent reading is “high priority homework!”
	Engage young readers in conversations that help reveal to themselves the motivations of characters.
	Recommend nonfiction titles that make satisfying background reading to novels.
	Bookmark web sites with pertinent information on authors and books.
	Create a “match game” for upper grades using titles and annotations from books they read in previous years.
	Set the mood for read-along time by lighting a candle.
	Do not criticize student’s free choice reading.  Everyone enjoys as occasional “too easy” book.
	Invite your principal to dress as a character in one of the Bluebonnet titles.
	Include descriptions of books, written by students, in parent newsletters.
	Videotape messages to authors from students

TBA, adhoc Committee, 1999, Linda R. Rivera, member