ROAR Reward of All Readers.ppt  Powerpoint presentation on reading motivation

 Get Caught Reading:  Assign the adults on campus numbered tokens and have them watch for students who are reading at unusual (but appropriate) places or times.  Ex. after work is done in math or science class, sitting on the quad area during lunch, in theater, or while waiting in lunch line or nurses office.  Have students turn in the tokens for a weekly drawing.  Getting involvement from classified, other subject area teachers and admin. causes reading to be visible and adds cachet to library program.  Check to see which adults are actually participating and be sure to thank them when you return the tokens.  Run for one month.  Make sure the tokens are not nicer than the prize you are offering.  The first year I did this I used heavy clay poker chips that the students really liked and kept.  I tried lightweight plastic chips, but sharpie marker rubbed off.  Last year I used small sized craft sticks ( short popsicle) and that worked well, not too large to carry in a pocket, yet shaped oddly enough that the adults remember to carry them.  I number 1 to 100 and assign adults tokens in ranges of 5.

Reading is Fundamental: For the past 15 years I have been the Executive Director of Pajaro Valley RIF, a local Reading is Fundamental project.  I have had the pleasure of working with some fabulous people and helped to distribute aproximately 405,000 books to underpriviledged families.  The organization has lots of wonderful reading motivation projects.