WFMW - Reading Bingo

I am very fortunate to have kids who love to read books. Both boys are reading above their level and although Lady Bug can't read yet, she loves to be read to. We often will all sit down and each read our own books. The boys are sometimes allowed 20 minutes or so after bedtime to lay in bed to read so they don't really need any encouragement in this area - thankfully!


My neighbor friend, who has two boys ages 12 and 9, was telling me that she has a terrible time getting her boys to read. So for fun I decided to have a Reading Bingo game amongst my two boys, the two boys across the street and one boy next door.


I made up my own BINGO card and in each box named a genre (Adventure, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction about an animal, etc.) The Bingo card has 4 boxes across and 4 boxes down. The instructions are typed in at the top and they must complete the book, fill in the title and author and then give a parent a quick "report" of what the book was about. Then the parent must initial the box that the book was completed. When the children have all boxes filled in they can bring it to me for a reward. Every kid will get a reward when the whole paper is completed. (I told the boys when I handed out the cards that if I thought they weren't really reading I would make them write a book report too!)


I haven't yet decided on a reward. I was thinking maybe a $5 gift card to Target or something or maybe a gift card to Dairy Queen. I don't know yet. Originally, when I was going to do this with just my kids, I thought the reward would be a "date night" with just me. But I don't want "date night" with my neighbor boys! I have time to figure it out though!

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