Reading more fun with prizes, ice cream parties
“We have different incentives to encourage the students to read. Little kids are really motivated by pencils, bookmarks, erasers and stuff like that. We do AR (accelerated reader) dollars. I run reports every few weeks, and they get a dollar for however many kinds of points they’ve earned. We have a prize list, and they can buy things with their points. There’s a big shelf of brand new books that they can spend $10 of fake money on and get a book to take home and keep forever. It’s like shopping at the book fair for free.
“The biggest thing we do is lunch and ice cream in the library. They pay for it with AR dollars, and I put them on the schedule. They get to come in here with three friends and watch something on the big screen. They eat lunch, and we have ice cream parties. It’s something different, and the kids just love it. It only costs me the price of some cheap ice cream from the store, but they think it’s amazing.”
— Amanda Rayburn
(Photo by Olivia Garza/Liv’s Looking Glass)
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