What's in Your Summer Stack?

I saw the absolutely cutest idea for a summer reading incentive over at Andrea's blog, Stepping into First Grade. I pass out Scholastic book orders every month and maybe get 3 or 4 kids who order books. My class is full of really great readers and I really want them to continue reading over summer vacation! So I was so excited to use Andrea's Summer Stacks!

I passed out our June book orders {holy cow, it's June!} and told my students to circle the books that they liked. Then, they wrote the name of the books on their summer stack.

Andrea took pictures of her students and glued them onto the paper, but I was too lazy busy to take and print all of their pictures, so we just drew faces instead!

On the other side of our summer stack, I copied the ready-made letter that Andrea included in her pack. I realized, after I made all of the copies, that I forgot to sign my name and write the due date! {0 for 2!} So I just had my students write their names, as if they were writing the letters to their parents and write the date. Hey, extra writing practice never hurt ;)

Then I stapled the letter onto the book order form and we were good to go!

Such a fun idea, thanks Andrea!

You can get your own Summer Stack {here}!

Here's a couple of some other really great summer reading incentives:

Created by Yvonne Dixon

 

Created by The Teacher Wife

Created by Library Centers

Do you have any fun summer reading incentives?? Comment below!

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