Each student will be given a student tally sheet to record 10 hours of recreational reading to earn a free ticket to Silverwood Theme Park and Boulder Beach Waterpark. This Spring program has encouraged many students to spend more time reading! A movie is great, but if you combine it with pajama day, that makes it even better.
Give them extra gym time. Again, physical activity is a great counterpart to reading. Make custom book bags. Your students will love creating their own customized book bag. You can find many ideas out there on Pinterest, but one of our favorites is the chalkboard paint bag. Create a book buddy bin. Reading is always more fun when you have a buddy to share it with, especially when they are soft and cuddly. Throw a dance party.
Okay, not everyone has to dance, but kids will love putting together a playlist to listen to for the afternoon. Make it a group activity where students nominate songs, and then everyone votes. They can listen to them while working on homework at the end of the day. Make root beer floats. Have a root beer float party in honor of your readers, and then invite them to do some related how-to writing! Have class outside. As the weather starts to warm up, offer to do your next reading lesson outside if students meet their reading goals.
Do apple tasting in the classroom. Buy several different apple varieties, and let your students have a healthy snack while also voting for their favorites. Offer to dress up. Now this one should be the top award. Set a really high goal, and if your students meet it, offer to do dress up however they choose. Kit includes coupons for two free cones, two free sundaes, and two free frozen yogurts.
The prizes are to be earned during the school year, but the coupons are good through June Enrollment for the coming school year will open August 1. Chuck E. Cheese — Free game tokens Kids can earn 10 free game tokens from Chuck E Cheese by reading every day for two weeks. These rewards are available all year long, with a limit of one reward certificate per day per child.
Visit their website to find charts for helping your kids establish other good habits , as well. Help foster in your children a continued love and preference for reading. This is a fun alternative to traditional clubs, especially if your children have grown too old to participate in the other programs. Print reading logs for each of member of your family.
Kids keep track of minutes or pages read, and parents determine the prizes. Follow this link for more ideas for making summer reading fun.
It also seemed to change the way children read. They were often unable to answer straight-forward questions about a book, even one they had just finished reading.
Finally, it decreased the amount of reading children did outside of school. No, the more significant problem is precisely that the effects of rewards do last, but these effects are the opposite of what we were hoping to produce. Here, a school purchases from a corporation called Advantage Learning Systems, Inc. Many educators who spend scarce funds on this program simply and understandably wish to encourage reading. But what matters more than the fact that children read is why they read and how they read.
He found that the few investigations that did turn up positive effects tended to rely on self-selected samples of students, which makes it difficult to draw conclusions about what actually led to the results. For example, other research has shown that time set aside for free voluntary reading in school is effective at promoting both skills and interest. A new study confirms that finding: Children who get a goodie for reading subsequently become less interested in reading.
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