Create Hall of Fame to publish names of students meeting goals. Use morning announcements and parent newsletters to acknowledge students who have met the 25-book goal. This was a wonderful way to build pride in the accomplishment as children saw their star go up. Each week a class was featured on our TV monitors.
Individual teachers have other incentives and DEAR times.
Teachers post a 25-book list prominently so students see that teachers are reading 25 books too. To promote reading, book review forms completed by our students were laminated and passed out to area businesses for other children to read. Many teachers kept 3-D bulletin boards designed like bar graphs that were a constant visual reminder. A huge thermometer was put on a hallway bulletin board to chart the number of books read by students. St. Paul Reads Committee sponsored a poster contest with three winners from each level, primary and intermediate.