Is there any reward system in place for progress goals to be met by the students?
Rewards can be any number of things. We have big bone bookmarks, and each week when a child completes a book they put a sticker on their bookmark, or a pawprint stamp, etc. After they’ve completed ten books, they get to choose a new book from our collection to keep for their very own, and their dog “pawtographs” it for them. There are studies that show children from deprived backgrounds have very few books, so giving them the opportunity to choose their very own shiny new one, is extremely valuable and influential. We get new books donated, and preferably hardbacks, so they seem really important and substantial (as opposed to used hand-me-downs). It is a big hit.
