As soon as the first stars began to appear, and to the sound of my daughter reciting 'Star Light, Star Bright', the kids started pointing their devices at the sky and excitedly began to call out the names of the different constellations as they identified them. Amazing!
I've been wanting to share my thoughts about how Reading Rewards can be used in Youth Libraries for a while, so when I noticed 'Gulf Beaches Library' in the Reading Rewards 'Top Groups of the Day' almost every day this week, I decided to contact their administrator to see how they were getting on, and [...]
Currently Reading:Schooled (Gordon Korman) In this fourth post in our Featured User Series, I'd like to introduce you to 10 1/2 year old Marco! Marco joined Reading-Rewards with his class in September 2010, and has logged just under 109 hours of reading time. That puts him at the Reading-Rewards Jellyfish level. Woohoo, [...]
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 [...]