This column provides background related to several "hot" reading topics currently taking place in schools across America as educators strive to produce lifelong readers who enjoy reading, read for a variety of purposes, and make meaning from the texts they read. Information for further reading on the topics explored also are shared. Such topics include reading for meaning, leveled texts, differentiated instruction, literature circles, and using children's literature in authentic ways through read-alouds. Ideas are shared on ways the school library media center can support current reading instructional trends.