Reading Teacher Christmas Shirt Best Way To Spread Christmas Cheer Is Teaching Reading

Read from the top, the sentence builds a tree one line at a time. A little star sits above “The best way to spread Christmas cheer,” the lines widen as they go, and “Reading” takes the middle in the biggest, roundest letters on the whole design. “To everyone here” spreads along the bottom like a tree skirt. Kids tend to notice the star first, then the books, then the words they can sound out on their own.

Reading Teacher Christmas Shirt With a Tree Built Out of One Sentence

Our Reading Teacher Christmas Shirt is made for the person who spends December on a classroom rug, turning pages for a circle of kids who are already dreaming about winter break. Around the lettering we added the things that live in that room: an open book on the left, a stack of books tied up with holly on the right, a hardcover with a bookmark tucked in, and a mug of cocoa with marshmallows steaming beside the word “Spread.” Snowflakes drift between the lines, and a string of tiny lights runs along the bottom above one more pile of books. The little details sit where a reader’s eye would wander, so a student sitting up close finds something new each time.

We pictured this tee on the day the class finally hears the holiday story, on the morning of the school concert, or on a quiet Saturday when a tutor helps one child get through a first full sentence. It suits a first-grade teacher, a reading interventionist, or anyone who has ever cheered when a student finished a page alone. The message is warm and a little proud. Teaching a child to read is the gift in the room, and the design says so with rounded letters and a cocoa mug instead of a speech. A grade-level team could wear it on the same day, and the hallway would fill with small trees made of words.

Who Besides a Classroom Teacher Might Wear the Teaching Reading to Everyone Here Tree?

School librarians and literacy tutors fit the message just as well, since both spend their days helping children find a way into books. Parents who run a December reading night and volunteers who sit with students for twenty minutes a week can wear it to the same effect. Anyone who has handed a child the right book at the right moment belongs under this tree.

Pair it with a plaid scarf and a tote of picture books, and the tree on your chest will already have a few young readers gathered beneath it.