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The Best Reading Reward Programs for Kids

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There are some great reading reward programs out there for kids!  If you want to encourage your children to read, this is a great option to help them.

Reading Rewards for Kids

As you probably already know from many of my posts, we are big readers.  We love reading and can hardly get enough of books.  We love to take part in the various reading reward programs that companies provide.  They always allow homeschoolers to take part!   It is so wonderful for the kids to get fun little rewards for the books that they already love to read.

Hopefully this list of reading incentives and rewards will help you get your kids reading a little more this year!  Some of these reading incentive programs are just for Summertime and some work for the whole school year.

Reading Reward Programs for Kids

Pizza Hut’s Book It!– Kids earn a personal pan pizza each month if you read a certain number of books. I did this as a kid and love that it is still around!

Barnes & Noble Summer Reading– Kids can earn a free book (from their selected list) for reading 8 books

Half Price Books has a summer reading program that rewards kids with $5 in book bucks!

Scholastic Summer Reading Program has you log your minutes of reading on their website and be /entered to win prizes.

Reading is Fundamental program give a free book away and also has fun Summer reading adventures to go on!

Timberdoodle offers gift cards to their site for completing reading challenges.

Books-a-Million has a fun Summer Reading program giving kids a drawstring backpack from completing the reading challenge.

Panda Express has a Read with Me reader reward program that awards a free kids meal.

Chuck-E-Cheese has reader rewards as well as other incentives that give them free game tokens.

Thriftbooks has birthday points As well as purchase you can earn to put towards new books.

Sync has a summer Audiobook reading challenge for teens & gives them free books.

Local public libraries have reading programs over the Summer.  We participated in ours and the kids earned a cheeseburger at In-N-Out.  See if your library has any similar programs.

Our local water park, Seven Peaks, also does a reader program earning you a free pass.  We love this one as well! See if your local parks offer reading incentives.

I love these reading Reward Programs so much.  They give kids a sense of achievement for accomplishing a hard thing. Increasing your reading frequency helps helping kids improve their reading skills, their reading comprehension and their fluency.  Struggling readers also get excited to improve their skills and see how much they accomplish!

More Fun Ways to Encourage Kids to Read:

Set monthly reading goals and give them some fun Reading Logs to use to keep track.

Give them a Summer Reading Challenge to encourage reading all Summer long!

Give them certificates and prizes for completing reading goals.

Keep a reading journal to see how many books you read in a year.  During 2020, my son read  300 books!

Check Out Some Great Book Lists to Get you Started:
Newbery Medal Books Reading List
50 Must Read Classic Books for Kids

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6 Comments

  1. That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing all of these. Unfortunately, many don’t include my kids who are upper middle school and high school. Ah well… they still love to read, thankfully.
    Over from TGIF.

  2. What a wonderful list! Thank you for the reminder. I forgot about Half Price Books and their reading program. We missed it last year. We usually participate in our local reading program at the library. Alyssa won a bike for her age group last year! It was a lot of fun and she wouldn’t stop reading. She was so motivated – it was her first bike ever. Funny you mentioned Book Adventure, Alyssa just took a quiz the other day. She enjoys checking to see whether she was right or not. LOL! She’ll take 3-5 quizzes and then give up for the day.
    God bless,
    Tracey

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