The importance of instilling a love of reading in our students I discovered this book on social media - Instagram, to be exact. As the librarian at my school site, I know my job is to promote reading. I picked up this book in order to help generate ideas that I can implement at my school site. Miller states at the beginning of her book that the goal of any teacher should be to create lifelong readers of our students. Reading culture is not part of my school site or the community the school is located in. Yet Miller talks about the importance of having reading role models. This is an important part of teaching students to become life long readers. She states: By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning to love reading, we are creating adults (who then become parents & teachers) who don't read much. . . . they do not love to read and have few life reading habits to model for children (p.107). If we as educators don't teach our students th