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I have used AR for years, and have always loved it. I have in the past used food and activity rewards for points.

Lately however, I have a couple of students who are attempting to read huge books and making low scores (60%) just to earn points, and I think they may also be setting up tests for themselves on books where they've seen the movie or read only part of the book. I am getting rather disgusted by this, and so I am considering deleting low scoring books, and/or not giving tangible rewards for points. I'm curious to know what other teachers are doing as far as rewards go.
Dustin I like you have used AR for years, and I too have students that take tests based off movies and/or by reading part of the book. But I disagree with not rewarding the child for the points. If I were you I would simply find out the test score in total and ask the child to be truthful. There is never a reason to punish the other children who are doing...See More
Aug 28, 2009


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