Reading incentives

Keep your students motivated to hit their weekly and monthly reading goals by offering a little motivation or reward. Here are some of our favorite ideas.

Looking for an engaging way to get students reading? These reading incentives for elementary students may be the perfect solution.

We have used AR on our campus for a long time. We just found out that our campus will no longer have AR, and I knew that I needed to come up with a new reading incentive for my students. I wanted something fairly simple, so this is what I've come up with. If they read a book, and complete a book blurb page, then they will get a buck. I plan to run the different dollar amounts on different colored construction paper. The goal will be for them to earn at least ten dollars per six weeks. I was…

I want to try all of these.

Getting students to read can be difficult, especially 3rd-5th graders. Here are 5 reading incentive ideas for 3rd-5th graders that really work!

Don’t get me wrong — I love candy. And, a jolly rancher, a tootsie roll, or a starburst can work wonders in the classroom for student motivation and enthusiasm. So can pizza parties, and cupcake days, and brunch, and…I’ve had so many types of food parties I can’t even keep track! Recently, however, I’ve been […]

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Love it! Instead of getting a pie in the face, the principal was taped to the wall and had to read for two hours when her students read one million words. Any librarians up for the challenge?