Amanda Hunt

Hey everyone! I'm Amanda Hunt aka @thenexgenlibrarian, a middle school librarian in Texas who loves using Canva, Adobe, and other digital app creations for posting content, creating lesson plans, Google headers, bingo boards, branding graphics, literacy initiatives and so much more. Below are some of the reading bingo boards that I have made that are all clickable for access to the Canva templates. You can use them in the classroom or library or challenge others on social media to promote reading, authors, books, celebration and months of honor & more! I'll be blogging more about Canva in the coming weeks and months so let me know if you want me to focus on something specific or if you have any questions! Librarians and educators share so that's what I'm here to do!

I'm actually running this bingo challenge the entire summer for a chance to win $100 in ebooks or audiobooks. Follow @thenextgenlibrarian on Instagram to play!

Celebrate various months of honor such as AANHPI Month, Poetry Month, BHM, WHM or highlight a particular genre such as mystery or romance!

Use bingos to promote literacy in the English (or any) classroom, or to complete tasks like the International Literacy Day Bingo (both of those created by @Z_brarian; or play for fun with anything in popular culture like Barbie Bingo!

I love bingos for reading challenges so much that I teamed up with @RachaelFryman to do a podcast featuring book recommendations for MG, YA and/or adults and followers can play bingo for a chance to win bookish prizes! Follow us: @booksandbingos

Basically, anything you can think of can be turned into a bingo card for students, patrons and/or social media PLN can play along. It makes reading more fun, it gives you a focus when you're overwhelmed by your ever-growing TBR, opens you up to new age groups, genres, topics, formats, etc. that you might not normally read and allows for a chance to potentially win something or get rewarded for reading. Remember Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for summer reading? They're bringing it back! Why? Because we love getting a little treat after we finish a book. Now I realize with kids that might be different, as we're trying to teach them that reading is the reward, but if you have kids that are already voracious readers or need a little nudge in the right direction, this might be the right motivator for them.