READING IDEAS: Get your students to read!
    
Author:  Galit K. Fraser 


        To get students to read more, try this interesting project.  

        1) Each book in your class becomes worth so many points.  

        2) A book is worth more points when it is a more complicated 
        book (higher reading level) or very long.  

        3) All books are assigned values and any books brough in from 
        outside must be checked and given a point value.  

        4) Each time a student reads a book, they must fill out a 
        worksheet about it to ensure they have actually read it.  

        5) If the student fills out the worksheet correctly,
        they will receive the points that book was worth.  

  TEACHER'S NOTE: All our points were posted on a bulletin board from 
                  the start of the school year. Meanwhile, we wrote 
                  letters to businesses asking for donations.  

                  For example: Someone wrote to Hershey and received 
                  two cases of kisses.  

                  At the end of the school year, we held an auction 
                  for all of the donations -- we had t-shirts, hats, 
                  candy, gum, books, school supplies, gift 
                  certificates, cash, etc.  

        6) A Studnet can only bid however many points they have and 
           each time they buy something, those points are deducted 
           from their total.  

                        It is a lot of FUN!

  TEACHER'S NOTE: If anyone would like me to elaborate, I can 
                     certainly do that. (E-Mail above)