Keep your kids reading this summer, and prevent summer loss, with these 10 great reading incentive programs: Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Kids must read any eight books this summer and record them in the Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Imagination’s Destination Journal. They then bring their completed journal to a Barnes & Noble store [...]
I am so excited to introduce you to Marissa, my very first Reading-Rewards.com member who was in no way related to me! I still remember the email notification I received letting me know I had had my first RR registration. Let me just tell you, my family certainly remembers... :-) Nearly 18 months and over [...]
How far would you go to get kids reading over the summer? Mrs. Stoudenmire, a principal at Deerfield Windsor Lower School, in Georgia, has pledged to either kiss a pig, be in a human sundae or get dunked in a dunking booth if students read at least 250,000 minutes over the course of the summer. [...]
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Many of the rewards that teachers and parents set up don't cost a cent. Here are our favorite reading incentives, pulled directly from the RR Store.
Reading-Rewards.com was launched just over a year ago, and since then we have had just over 4,000 members join. We're very excited! More than just an online reading log, Reading Rewards also encourages our young members to rate and review their books. These reviews can then be shared with other members, and help kids find [...]
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting a pretty remote part of the world: Iqaluit, Nunavut, in the great Canadian North. I was there on business, consulting on an IT project. I had no idea what to expect, really, but nothing could have prepared me for the breathtaking views from the plane [...]
The Children’s Book Council (CBC) in association with Every Child A Reader, the CBC Foundation, announced the winners of the fourth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards at a gala in New York City on May 2nd as part of Children’s Book Week (May 2-8, 2011). Children across the country voted in record numbers for their [...]
Best Books for Boys: How to Engage Boys in Reading in Ways that Will Change Their Lives by Pam Allyn 176 pages, ISBN: 978-0545204552 When I was asked to review Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys - How to Engage Boys in Reading in Ways That Will Change Their Lives, I didn't hesitate for [...]