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Reading Rewards Presentation By: Jenna Ward

Background Information: WHY I started using Reading Rewards in my classroom

When I first began teaching 5th grade, I knew that I wanted my students to have weekly reading homework. I required them to read for 80 minutes a week - however they chose. If they wanted to read for 20 minutes a night, that was fine, or if they would rather read all 80 minutes in one sitting, that was OK too. In order to hold my students accountable, I had them fill out a reading record sheet that looked like this:


 * = ......DATE...... ||= .......BOOK TITLE....... ||= ......START PAGE....... ||= .......END PAGE..... ||

This worked for most of my students, but it was just ONE MORE THING for me to grade every Friday, and I quickly realized that it was NOT going to work for my students that constantly lose their homework - and sometimes, even their classwork!

If their locker looked like this...



Or if their desk looked like this...  

Chances were, they weren't going to be turning in their weekly reading.

SOMETHING had to change!  As I always do when I'm looking to upgrade my ideas, I turned to the Internet and stumbled upon Reading Rewards. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Check out the benefits of the site here:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Benefits of Reading Rewards <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A Basic Introduction to Reading Rewards: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">media type="file" key="Reading Rewards Intro.swf" width="540" height="405" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Setting up an Account:

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Logging Reading Time: media type="file" key="logging reading.swf" width="555" height="546" align="center"

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Managing Rewards: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="file" key="rewards.swf" width="540" height="540" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Grading the Weekly Reading: media type="file" key="grading2.swf" width="548" height="548" <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Book Reviews:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Writing Reviews

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">The Blog:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">The RR Blog

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;">HERE'S WHAT THE KIDS IN MISS WARD'S CLASS <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;">HAD TO SAY ABOUT READING REWARDS:

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;">media type="custom" key="23967474" width="720" height="720" <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;">Check out some of the screen shots from <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 260%; text-align: center;">Miss Ward's account! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Here, you can view our classroom REWARDS that can be earned: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">This is a shot of our main group page:



<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">WELCOME TO OUR BLOG!