My kids are older and no longer need the incentive to read. For years, however, we used a summer reading chart to keep them going when they were off school. Usually we had a 100 book chart. When the kids were younger, they earned prizes for every 10 books they read. As they got older we paid them for the books. We have never done allowance, so we felt like this was a good way for them to earn some money.
Summer Reading Chart
These charts include a prize list idea, but of course - come up with your own. The prizes we had were:
Cold Treat - usually a trip to the store for an ice cream cone.
Treasure Box - which had fun trinkets
Late Night - not a late night with friends, but just getting to stay up past bedtime
New Book - I would order books through scholastic at school and save them up for rewards
Adventure - a fun activity, trip to the park, a hike, etc.
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Teen Book List
When your kids reach a certain age they aren't really into reading charts. This is more of a personal reading list, where they keep track of the books they have read, what they thought of the book (star rating) along with a list of books they might like to read. This works great for youth book clubs, too.
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Youth Book Club
We had a fun time teaching our church group how to have a book club. Girls between the ages of 9 and 11. They all brought a book they wanted to talk about. We demonstrated how to talk about your book, what information to include, and then we had prepared questions the girls could ask. Of course, they were welcome to ask their own questions as well. At the end we gave them a two-sided form and the girls wrote down the names of any books that were discussed that they thought they might like to enjoy. We explained how members of a book club can read and discuss the same book, or they can all read different books and talk about them. This will be fun to do each month.
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Happy Reading!
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