Reading Incentives

See Also:

• Accelerated Reader

• Caught Reading

Guessing Games that get students to return to the library

• Guess how many books are in our collection?

• Guess how many books have circulated this year?

• Literary Preserves

Reader Award

by Heather Gruenthal, Adapted from Chris Enterline, AUHSD (retired)

Welcome to the [school name or mascot] Program

To help promote reading, the Library Media Center would like to honor students for their reading activities. Please help us identify students who should be recognized for continued effort to improve reading skills. Consider such behaviors as:

• Exceptional cooperation and readiness for Reading Period.

• Exceptional oral reading skill.

• Getting “caught” reading outside school (lunch, after school, before practice, etc.).

• Reading the most books or pages in the class.

• Finishing a complete series

• Observing the student discussing or recommending a favorite book with friends.

• Expressing interest in what the teacher or another student is reading.

• Finishing a book from cover to cover (maybe for the first time ever!).

• High scores on tests based on classroom reading assignments.

• Exceptional presentations based on classroom reading assignments.

• Excellent writing or homework based on classroom reading assignments.

• Anything else that relates to reading achievement.

All students nominated will be recognized with a [school name or mascot] Reader Award certificate, and allowed to choose a free book (free books will be available as bonuses from book fair sales).

Please nominate a student using the nomination form attached below and return the form to [Librarian's Name] box. You may nominate more than one student, and you may continue to nominate students throughout the school year. Please use a separate form for each student nominated.

Thanks for your efforts to help our students read well and enjoy reading.