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I keep these letters in a bucket and pull one winner when the board is entirely filled.
*It could be pulled at the end of each day or several winners when it's filled-many options.
I hope you had a wonderful week! Please link up any lessons, ideas, tips, tricks, incentives, ANYTHING you do get your students motivated or excited!
If you follow my blog, you know I'm a HUGE fan of Reading Counts! It's a great incentive and motivator to promote reading. Our school offers incentives (remember the dunking booth!) and I offer incentives in my classroom too. However, I wanted to challenge my students further than earning points-I wanted them to increase their accuracy rate. I created a READ prize board and placed it at the front of my room. Every time a student scored a 10/10 on a Reading Counts test they got to sign a spot on the board for a chance to win a prize. I had several students who read longer text so to make it fair, I allowed them to sign their name on a box for every two points they earned. (If the book was worth 10 points, they signed 5 times).
Once I introduced this new incentive in our classroom, these sheets filled up quickly! It was important for them to double check their answers to aim for that 10/10!
*It could be pulled at the end of each day or several winners when it's filled-many options.
Simple idea, but motivated my students to read more carefully and it revived some of my readers who were slacking a little! :)
*It could be used anything for reading: 100 book challenge, completed reading logs, improvement on weekly reading tests, Accelerated Reader, # of minutes on a reading computer program, etc.
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Thanks so much for this freebie! I am excited to use it and definitely shared it with my teacher friends. :)
ReplyDelete-Lisa
Mrs. Spangler in the Middle
I can definitely see using this with my students! I always have students who just take tests on their book to try to get points, but they didn't actually read the book! This would help eliminate that!
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FabandFunin4th!
Great freebie! Thank you! We do AR at my school, so I think I will use it for that. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Thank you! I have a couple that this would really work for and then I have some that are so motivated that I can't even keep up with them. I had one student score 1, 500 A.R. points this year. I'm pretty sure that is a school record. Blew me out of the water. XO
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Rockin' and Lovin' Learnin'
Thinking of how to use this to motivate my boy dominated class whose assessment forms say they hate reading. I will definitely snag this freebie.
ReplyDeleteThat's a super cool idea, definitely going to see if I can do this for Math!
ReplyDeleteAnisa @ Creative Undertakings
This is so cute! :)
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with Reading Counts, so I'm going to check it out. I am always looking for new ideas to motivate my students to read. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteStephanie
Forever in Fifth Grade
This is adorable! I absolutely love this idea!
ReplyDeleteMisty
Think, Wonder, & Teach
I really like this idea. I believe checking for accuracy is an important skill to teach children early! Thanks for the freebie.
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