INCENTIVES

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**Are you at a loss for how to get those kids in gear? Find some great ideas for getting your reluctant readers motivated.**

//Contributed by Erin Dafeldecker//: 3 incentives that have worked for me have been: __**Lunch Bunch, Class Competition, and Individual Competition.**__ I learned about **__Lunch Bunch__** from an ACP class. The incentive program encourages students to do the right thing by being active learners and leaders in the classroom. There is one winner per block per month, the winner recieves a free lunch (different menu every month, example: May=Mexican), a certificate, and a positive phone call home. I have had much success with this program, parents love hearing from their child's teacher in a positive light and are very thankful. __**Class Competition**__ allows my 3 class blocks to compete for the title of "Most Books Read" and a class Pizza Party at the end of the year. Number of books are based on page numbers (and is objective to the teacher, for example //Crank// would not be as many books as //Twilight//, even if they have the same amount of pages): less than 25 pages is .25 of a book less than 50 pages is .5 of a book 150 pages counts as 1 book and so on and so forth... Students have a monthly overalll reading log that they are responsible for completing. At the end of the month, books are counted by teacher, and entered into a spreadsheet to find class and individual totals. The class results are displayed on graphs in the classroom, so students can observe their competition's progress. (Of course, a lot of this is based on an "honor system" with your classes. This is were the objective-ness helps... if you have a student that never reads in Independent Reading, but has an impressive overall log, feel free to question them!) __**Individual Competition**__ is a spin off of Class Competition, that gives the top readers recognition. The top 5 readers each month are posted on the board with the amount of books they've read to promote some healthy competition. At the beginning of the year, every student is asked what a "realistic" reward they would want if they were the winner of the Individual Competition and I try my best to meet those wishes. Last year, two tickets to the Warp Tour Rock Concert were donated from the 97x Radio Station to the winner who read an outstanding total of 86 books. This year the predicted winner (final book count will be 5/31/11) has read over 100 books!

//Contributed by Diana Bell//: Coupons-students can earn various coupons based on whatever competitions you are holding. I made a set and laminated them for my "treasure box." Adjust them to suit your needs. Don't forget to change it to your name and your school!

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