Reward Reading
We all want children to read for the love of reading, but sometimes we need to reward reading to give their motivation a little push. Reading Rewards is jam-packed with features designed to motivate reading.
Motivate Reading with the Right Book Recommendations
There is no better reading motivation than finding the right book for each child.
On Reading Rewards, children can find great books to read by:
Displaying a list of books that their friends have read, as well as their friends’ reviews of those books.
Browsing book lists assembled by their parents, teachers, or librarians.
Seeing which books are most popular among Reading Rewards members, by age and gender.
Browsing book lists compiled by Reading Rewards, and other Reading Rewards members.
Got a summer reading program?
Create reading assignments with timelines, follow the children’s progress against those lists, and send them personalized messages of encouragement along the way.
Reward Reading
Built-in Reading Incentives
Adults know that reading is its own reward. But sometimes, children do need a little extra motivation to get started with reading, until they develop an interest in doing it for its own sake.
Reading Rewards features built-in reading incentives to get kids excited about reading. As children and teens log their reading, they:
Accumulate RR Miles based—among other things—on the minutes they log, the books they complete, and the reviews they write.
Move up levels, using either numbered levels or animal levels.
Earn printable reading certificates every time they finish a book.
Trade in their RR Miles for a joke or riddle of the day.
Rewards Reading Your Way
In addition to the built-in reading incentives included in the program, Reading Rewards let you define custom rewards to motivate your students and recognize their achievements.
You can:
Define creative rewards that your students can “buy” with the RR Miles they earn. After logging reading time, children can visit the RR Store to start collecting those rewards.
Define custom badges to reward your students for reaching specific milestones.
And if you’re a teacher looking for some inexpensive & creative reward ideas, please read this very popular post on 11 reading incentives for the classroom.
Stimulate Discussion Around Reading
A great way to help children read for pleasure is to make the activity social.
Reading Rewards is a safe social network for kids built around the activity of reading. Children can:
See what their friends are reading and read their reviews.
Get great book recommendations from the people who know them best.
Chat about reading with friends on the class blog, discussing the books that mean the most to them.
Children love sharing the experience of reading with friends, which helps keep them motivated.
Praise for Reading Rewards
Here’s what our users have to say about the Reading Rewards program.
The Premium account provides greater ease in setting up student accounts, as well as the ability to assess students’ reading progress through the “Quizzes” feature. It’s helpful to have these tools in addition to the motivating online reading community that Reading Rewards provides for my students.
Once you start using RR in your classroom, you love it and can’t imagine ever returning to paper logs.
Once again, I’ll say your site is FABULOUS! […] It is so very easy for even 6-and 7-year olds to navigate! Our Library Media Specialist […] loves it too, as do many other adults and kids! Your fan club around here is growing at breakneck speed!!! :-)
We have turned dozens (yes, DOZENS) of reluctant readers into avid readers who dramatically improved their skills over the course of nine short months. I really don’t think I could have done it without your site. Boys (mostly) who hated reading were turned on by the competitive nature of the site and by the various levels reached each time they passed a goal.
No more duo tangs! No more paperwork! I love how Reading Rewards streamlines reading logs and reading assessments for me. The kids love the built in reward system. It’s a terrific program!
“This is my first year to use Reading-Rewards and I am loving it. I love the Reading Rooms and reviews and the option to buy the books with just a click. I love the animations and badges and RR miles. My first graders are doing a great job. Some parents were a little leary of using the program, but it was easy for me to walk them through it and now they are all on board.”
“I LOVE YOUR SITE!!!! My kids are so excited to read every night now :-)”
“My 130 students and I are LOVING this website! So amazing to be able to create a community of readers! […] Thank you for this wonderful resource!”
“We now have all the kids and homeroom teachers of grades 1-5 enrolled! :-) A few teachers have taken off and gotten their kids going on it already—my own first graders have been “training” their peers, and loving it!!!
Once again, I’ll say your site is FABULOUS! […] It is so very easy for even 6-and 7-year olds to navigate! Our Library Media Specialist […] loves it too, as do many other adults and kids! Your fan club around here is growing at breakneck speed!!! :-)”
“I must say I love your website. I am a 5th grade teacher in Massachusetts and I have been using your website for a couple months now. I have seen my students reading has improved and kids have had the chance to talk with each other about book choices and suggestions which has enriched their reading experience.”
“Your website is fantastic. I have almost all of my students on. We’re just waiting for about 30 more kids to join and then our group will have 93. The kids are thrilled with reading-rewards (fifth grade). I cannot thank you enough. […] It made a huge impact on my students. Many of my reluctant readers thrived on the format and we saw a large gain in reading levels.”
“Students were excited to buy their rewards that we set up as a class. At the beginning of the year, we brainstormed what rewards they wanted to purchase and set a price for them. Students would read enough and then purchase their reward. They were also motivated to increase their level. I can’t believe that moving from a Goldfish to a Dragon could influence students to log more reading, but it did.”
“Your website, by the way, is fantastic. I use it with my 7th grade English class at our small school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it has really encouraged the kids in their reading.”
Reading Rewards was just what our school needed to build more enthusiasm for our summer reading program. As the librarian, I was able to use our premium account to set up logins for all of our students, but I was also able to share responsibilities for monitoring lists and creating rewards with other teachers. (…) I have received fabulous feedback from students, parents, and teachers as we have used Reading Rewards this summer. The students love being able to earn badges, progress through the different reading level icons, and most of all, share their progress with the classmates in their groups. Many students are already asking if they can keep using it now that the summer program is over even if there are no rewards! The enthusiasm and excitement that Reading Rewards has generated has been very enriching for us as a school.
“I wish I would have found this site years ago for our struggling reader! This has been an incredible inspirational site to motivate him to read this summer! It was soooo cool to see his peer group reading success…it gave him the motivation to read more and pass his peers by! I cannot say thank you enough!”
“My son just finished another book, and has added the next one to his library. This site has really turned around his idea of reading, and it has been one of the main factors of getting him to read so much. Thank you!”