At Teacher Toolbox, we understand keeping track of a whole class of children’s reading, both at school and at home, is hard! It can also be difficult to encourage children to take ownership of their learning, by encouraging them to record their reading at home.
We have created a free classroom printable with the aim of supporting educators to record reading in the classroom, whilst celebrating the efforts of your students. While you can try your hardest to foster a pleasure for reading in school, what they choose to do at home requires this to go one step further, and it’s largely out of your control. At home, the children have many other choices, so having an extra motivation to encourage them to take control of their learning at home, may be just what they need.
We suggest you laminate a popcorn per child, then display these in the classroom, in a folder, or in their reading records. Once a day, make it a child’s job to check through the reading records, or similar, and using a whiteboard pen, give children who read a tick. If they fill their popcorn, they receive a certificate or prize and then their ticks are rubbed out and you start all over again. Alternatively, don’t laminate them, and print a fresh one each time they complete it, so they can collect their popcorn pots and take them home!
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