We are a K-6 elementary school Indiana. Each week, a different Young Hoosier Book award nominee is highlighted and the students get to vote on their favorite toward the end of the year. Grades K-3 are read aloud the picture book nominees and grades 4-6 are shown a book trailer for the intermediate nominees. A lot of great resources for these books can be found on the Indiana Library Federation website. To promote these books and to help students remember them when it comes time for them to vote at the end of the school year, I made this display:
To promote the Young Hoosier books with our older students, we have an incentive for any students in grades 4-6 who read Young Hoosier intermediate nominee books. If they read at least 10, they get invited to a special luncheon in which they get to order a sandwich and drink from Subway and enjoy chips and cookies to go with them. We hold this during our spring book fair that our Parents' Club hosts and they allow each student to choose a free book. If any student reads all 20, they also get to choose a second or non-book item from the book fair. Here is a picture from our 2018-19 celebration:
In order to keep track of who earns this special reward, students are reminded throughout the year to add their name to the YHBA chart and put a star next to any books that they have read and passed (at least 70%) an SRC quiz over. They cannot add their name until they have read and passed at least 3 quizzes:
This chart, along with other YHBA resources, can be ordered HERE.
