[ISLMA-Share] Abe incentives

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We do a pizza party on voting day for eligible voters during their lunch
period.  I also make brownies and bring soda.  They vote and talk about the
books.

One thing that has helped a lot here has been to get the English teachers
involved.  I do booktalks to every single English class; this has been HUGE
in getting kids to check them out and talk about them.  The English
teachers have also started using the Abe list to assign summer reading.

Britni Hogg
School Library Media Specialist
Central High School, #71
Breese, IL 62230
bhogg at centralcougars.org
618-526-4578



On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> On voting day, we serve breakfast in the LMC for the voters and they are
> able to select a brand-new book from the prize box.  We fill up the prize
> box with donations and books from Scholastic sales.  In the past, students
> who read all the nominated titles have received a shopping bag filled with
> candy and free books from the prize box.
>
> It's simple, but it works because our Abe readers want more books of their
> own anyway and we don't have a bookstore in town.
>
> Ann Marie Jinkins
> Librarian
> Rochelle Township High School
> 1401 Flagg Road
> Rochelle,  IL 61068
>
> (815)562-4161, ext. 4112
> ajinkins at rthsd212.org
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> I have tried different incentives in the past that haven't met with much
>> success (gift certificates including for movies, candy, field trips to fun
>> but educational places like the Abe Lincoln Museum, etc...).  I was going
>> to look on the ISLMA site for ideas others have used because I thought in
>> the past anyway there was a link to a document with such ideas, but i'm not
>> finding it now.  Did it go away or am I just missing it?  I'm open to other
>> incentives you all have tried and found successful.  Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Chuck Atteberry
>> Roanoke-Benson High School
>>
>> "Work with the living and bring the dead to life."  -author unknown
>>
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