BOOK-IT AND AR STORE: 

 

Pizza Hut has a reading incentive program called “Book It.”  The idea for this program is that the teacher sets a monthly goal for each student in reading, and if the student reaches the monthly goal, s/he receives a coupon for a free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut.  This year, the school is adding another incentive—if the student reaches his/her monthly reading goal, s/he receives a prize from the AR (Accelerated Reader) store!  Considering our kindergarten kids are just learning to read, I have created a goal that includes reading, but also incorporates classroom effort. 

Let me explain:

At some point each week, your child brings home a phonics reader (small paper folded in half to create a “book”).  This reader should be practiced at home and is also read at school during reading workstations/small groups.  Additionally throughout the week, other short stories are read during our small group time. 

The monthly goal I have set includes:

1.    The child demonstrates, through fluent reading, that s/he practiced his/her decodable reader at home nightly. 

2.    The child shows his/her best effort during our reading workstations/small group times as we read other short stories daily.