I want to set up a reading reward scheme in Yr 2 - any ideas ?

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Hi, I'm at TA in a year 2 class and I'm looking to set up a good reading reward scheme for the kids when they read at home. We tried one last year where the kids had stickers on a chart for how many times they read at home , then the child with the most got a dip in the teachers box of treats ( pencils, rubbers etc) .

The only problem was the same boy won every week and always got the treat so the scheme kind of withered away.

I'm looking for a fun way to reward reading at home - help!

TIA

Oh and when it first started I did rewards for anyone who brought along a book they were reading at home.

mrz I run a story telling club a/s and our last activity each day I get the children to give me a setting/objects/characters etc and I make up a story based on that. we are leading up to the children telling the story.

worth considering

It's something we've done for a number of years

We have story telling boxes and the children select three objects which are used in the story

I am a teacher. I have worked with kids whose parents wont have 'that school shit' at home (a little notebook and pen as a reward - sent back on the basis it is educational 'crap' and charity).

Many reward schemes work for many kids/ parents but some aren't going to get through what ever you do (and telling off the parents is very much not an option). Finding a time in the school day when the kids can do their 'at home' reading at school - playtime etc - can be really beneficial, as can rewarding for reading alternative books/ printed matter that is not 'school' - e.g. cornflake packets, road signs etc

I buy every child a book at the end of each term and have had parents bin them.

I love story boxes. my school doesn't have any, I think I will set that as a home learning task! Thanks

TeacherBob, I think it's a good idea to make story box. But why does it have to be home learning? Why can you do it at school?
KS2 maybe most kids are capable, but in FS and KS1, they will need help, won't they? Or your parents are all dream parents who would/could do anything to help children?

Making story boxes at home is pretty standard stuff

It's not something we'd ask parents to do at home.

I am not surprised.

Obviously your parents have more disposable income than ours

It is not about disposable income. You don't need much money.

For home learning, I do a menu. It has 4/5 literacy activities, 4/5 maths activities and 4/5 creative ones. There is something for everyone and everyone participates. We also let children take things home to help them make things if they wish.

I am not surprised you don't, you seem to have an aversion from expecting parents to do anything with their children and you seem happy to let poverty be an excuse.

• Children choose which activities they want to do. It has a 100% participation rate

My children's school has a number of after school clubs for children who don't have access to support at home - homework/reading/maths. The SLT also have a few children each in KS2 who they listen to read aloud each week as they don't have this at home.

I think these attempts to level the playing field a bit are much better than 'rewards'.

This week my ds has online homework and homework needing printout from website.
I sometimes wonder, if the school really assume everybody has pc and printer at home. There's mention of using school computer during homework club in case you don't have it at home, but it seems very discriminating. Some teachers seems to be living in the different world.

Obviously your idea of story boxes isn't the same as what we have as they were expensive

a shoe box, maybe a few household props, a character drawn on a lolly stick. nothing expensive

So you need a shoe box and lolly sticks, glue, colouring pencils/pens, paper/card?

Pretty much, which is pennies. All of which is available to borrow from my class.
And children don't have to even do that task, there are plenty more to choose from.
I want home learning to be exciting

Shoe box is another annoying thing that school expect us to have at home.
We only wear boots, so the box comes with it is too big. Children's shoe boxes are tiny. I used to have lots, but thrown them away before I realised we need so many of them!

Lots of children get shoes from supermarkets or charity shops they don't come in boxes and it's pounds not pennies.

Is it exciting?

Perhaps teacherbob and Mrz should do an exchange to each other's school and report back?

It is clear to me from reading various threads that Mrz is very experienced and gets good results. TeacherBob who I haven't particularly noticed around before seems pretty sure he/she gets excellent involvement from parents in a short time frame. Maybe there are just different ways of doing things to get results?

Good idea.