It is easy to make reading bulletin boards for your classroom. To make a bulletin board that promotes a love for reading, it can feature a famous quote about reading, a humorous message, or a collection of motivational reading posters. These bulletin boards can be displayed in your reading nook or over your library area.
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How to Make Reading Bulletin Boards
To make a reading bulletin board, you can use a complete bulletin board set with pictures, headings and cutouts, or you can use an array of reading posters to make a bulletin board. Reading bulletin boards can be put on classroom walls, whiteboards, and doors. See examples below.
Reading Bulletin Boards on Walls
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Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader: This reading bulletin board set comes with the words and the cutouts. The tree bulletin board is made with confetti circle letters and a woodland tree. The bright colorful bulletin board has reading banner posters from Sproutbrite.
One book can change the world bulletin board: This bulletin board features the quote by Malala Yousafzai. The butterflies look so real.
‘Reading is to the Mind, As Exercise is to the Body’ bulletin board: This bulletin board explains that reading grows and strengthens the mind.
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‘Reading Gives your Imagination Wings’ bulletin board: This boho bulletin board was made with this letter set and these butterflies. The colorful version came from this bulletin board set. I like that the colorful version has separate book covers added to it by the teacher. See other book cover bulletin boards, like this one, in a recent blog post.
‘Reading Gives You Wings’ bulletin board: This type of bulletin board comes with a large open book cutout, the words, the a lot of butterflies.
Cactus themed reading bulletin board set: This set comes with reading posters, cutouts, and a ‘read’ letter heading. I found a very similar foliage version here.
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Reading Strategy Bulletin Boards: This keys to reading bulletin board has reading strategy posters along with a heading and cutouts. The strategies are preview, infer, connect, visualize, summarize, predict, evaluate, and question. I found another reading strategy bulletin board with six strategies explained, a ‘reading is thinking’ header, and cutouts.
Make a ‘Reading Will’ bulletin board: This reading bulletin board was created from from a coloful and inspirational set of two posters.
Reading Takes You Places bulletin board: An adventure themed tapestry is placed in the middle of this reading bulletin board.
Make a simple #READ bulletin board: Print and cutout the phrase ‘#READ’ with one letter printed per page in large sizes. Use some picture ledges to display books right on the bulletin board.
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Make a READ bulletin board with book cutouts: This reading bulletin board comes with book cutouts and letter posters for READ. It has an almost boho look, overall.
Reading is an Adventure bulletin board: This bulletin board reads ‘Reading is an Adventure that Never Ends’.
Reading is a Blast space themed bulletin board: This bulletin board includes the letters and cutouts.
Reading is out of this world space themed bulletin board: I love this cute bulletin board idea. The letters and cutouts were stuck onto the paper with sticky tack. Find similar bulletin boards to it here.
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Look Who Got Caught Reading bulletin boards: Recreate the first ‘Look Who Got Caught Reading’ bulletin board using this black background, large letters, small letters, large googley eyes, border trim, and tassel garland.
Reading Makes Life Colorful bulletin board: This artistic bulletin board is colorful on one side and black and white on the other side. It has streamers, colorful dot cutouts, letter cutouts, a book cutout and border trims.
Reading with my Gnomies bulletin board: This bulletin board has cutouts of gnomes and books. An extra checkered border trim was added.
Classroom Door or Library Door Reading Bulletin Boards
Reading Gives you Wings Door Bulletin Board: This set comes with words and large cutouts, which make it suitable for a door bulletin board. There were a lot of butterflies left over for the teacher to put on her cupboards.
Reading is an Adventure door bulletin board: This is a bulletin board set that is used on a classroom door. It is great for any outdoors theme like a camping, Spring, Summer, or an adventure theme.
More door bulletin boards for reading will be added as I find them.
Reading Bulletin Boards made with Posters
Use A ‘Reading Can’ Header: Use a poster set to show all the benefits of reading. This is used with a rainbow theme since the posters are so colorful. Rainbow border trims and a large rainbow garland are added to match the posters.
Bright colors on chalkboard themed reading posters: This set of reading posters make a beautiful bulletin board for a classroom library.
Interactive Poster Bulletin Board for Close Reading: This poster set has more parts than what is shown in the picture. It includes a dry-erase prompt poster for students to prove their answers by showing evidence.
Keep it simple with posters only: You can just place an array of posters on your wall and frame them to make tgem pop. This set of reading posters were framed with dollar tree frames. The other poster reads ‘reading is an adventure that never ends’.
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Reading corner posters: These reading posters come in three themes; colorful pastel, chalkboard, rainbow colors, and bright theme.
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Teacher Created Resources Wonderfully Wild Reading Bulletin Board set: This bulletin board poster set has eight posters with positive messages about reading books. The one on the right has matching flowers added from this bulletin board set.
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READ letter cutouts with matching posters in different themes: These reading bulletin boards come with cutouts of the letters R, E, A, and D, alng with reading posters and cutouts. The different styles in this bulletin board series are Boho, Rainbow, and Eucalyptus.
Cool colors reading bulletin board posters: The background colors in these reading positivity posters are light colors which give these posters an almost pastel look. A pastel garland was added to match the pastel colors.
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READ letter posters with a poster for each letter: The READ letters on this bulletin board are nice and big enough to be seen clearly from afar. There are small rainbow cutouts for you to write your students’ names on them. The second pocture has READ letter book cutouts for boho bulletin boards. The third picture used these READ posters. The fourth picture shows these READ letter cutouts that are as large as posters. They come with the additional posters you see on the wall.
Reading strategy posters bulletin board: These posters are great for older students in higher grades.
Reading Banners for Reading Bulletin Boards
These reading banners can either be placed above your bulletin board or be the featured text withing your reading bulletin board. See examples below.
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A ‘Reading Will’ Poster Banner Set: Show all the things that reading will do for a reader with this poster set. It is a Sproutbrite creation that can go on your classroom wall or in your reading nook. It reads ‘Reading will expand your mind, shape your dreams, take you on an adventure, and inspire you to think big’. The bulletin board with the hot air balloons used balloon wall decals and a cloud background.
Seasonal Reading Bulletin Boards
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Winter Reading Bulletin Boards: The first bulletin board is Winter themed. It reads ‘Chill out with a Good Book’. To recreate it, you will need silver sparkle letters, snowflake cutouts, a dark blue background, and snowflake borders. The second bulletin board was created from this set for the words ‘Warm and Cozy’ and for the cutouts. Other letters were used to say ‘Reading a Great Book’.
Spring Reading Bulletin Board: For this bulletin board, colorful letter cutouts were used to make the words ‘Reading Makes Your Mind Bloom’. Matching flower cutouts and border trims make the bulletiin board so bright and colorful.
Summer Reading Bulletin Board: This ocean bulletin board says ‘Catch the Reading Wave.’
More seasonal reading bulletin boards will be added as I find them.
You may also be interested in this post about hands-on reading and spelling activities. For making your bulletin boards stay up on cinder block walls, I have some helpful tips for you in this blog post.
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