Every Day Reading Incentives

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Popular authors and presenters, Pat Messner and Brenda Copeland provide worksheets, reproducible patterns and related reading based activities linked to school curriculums to get students interested in reading and in reading more every day. All ideas have been kid tested and work to encourage reading through easy every day activities rather than huge school wide projects. This book appeals to school librarians and classroom and reading teachers as they try to encourage all kids to read each and every day. Interesting activities and enticing incentives will push up those circulation figures and those reading scores! Grades K-5. Popular authors and presenters, Pat Messner and Brenda Copeland provide worksheets, reproducible patterns and related reading based activities linked to school curriculums to get students interested in reading and in reading more. All ideas have been kid tested and work to encourage reading through easy every day activities rather than huge school wide projects. This book appeals to school librarians and classroom and reading teachers as they try to encourage all kids to read each and every day. Interesting activities and enticing incentives will push up those circulation figures and those reading scores! Pat and Brenda are sisters, both practicing school librarians, and work together virtually to write their books. This is their fourth book for Libraries Unlimited. Grades K-5.

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This text contains the tools to help kindergartners read for a snowball fight, to encourage fifth graders to read a biography in every century, and many other tasks designed to make reading appeal to different learning styles and levels of interest. These elementary activities are organized by age group and include reproducible materials. * Reference & Research Book News *
School librarians and classroom teachers will find this book useful in obtaining new ideas for encouraging reading among all elementary students. With decorations included, public librarians might find some themes useful for their own summer reading programs. Recommended for Grades K-5 teachers and librarians. * Catholic Library World *

Author Bio

PATRICIA A. MESSNER is an elementary media specialist in the Lebanon City School District, Lebanon, Ohio. She holds a Masters of Education degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and a Bacherlors Degree in Elementary Education from Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky. BRENDA S. COPELAND is an elementary librarian in the Palmyra School District, Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Brenda earned her MLS degree from Kurtztown University and her Bacherlors Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Delaware.