When someone posts pizza bookmarks, they say an angel earns their wings.
When I was a kid, our reading teacher offered really cool bookmarks as rewards. I wanted one of each, so I read my heart out. When it came time to collect, someone had stolen all the bookmarks the day before… I never did get those bookmarks. 😔
Does this still exist? As a kid, it was the only way you were gonna get me to read a book.
It definitely does for younger kids. Mine has to earn AR points for taking small tests in the books he reads. If as a whole the class earns enough it’s a pizza party
I remember doing this in first grade. I learned that “Chapter” books counted for 2. Thought I was hacking the system.
Today I realized Pizza Hut and Book-It are the reason that every time I finish a book I crave pizza…
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Does somebody want to fill me in?
Pizza Hut has a program called “BOOK IT!” which many classrooms across the country enrolled in. Teachers (or Parents over the summer or in cases of homeschool) can set a reading goal for the student and, when they reach it, can award them a coupon for a free personal pan pizza
I now realize this was an elaborate ruse on the part of Pizza Hut to get your parents in the door to buy themselves a pizza. As a kid you got the personal pan pizza for reading 40 books. Your parents had to buy their own food.
Not how my experience went. You read the books, you got the points, and (assuming you were doing well in every other aspect of the class), you got an A. But if you struggled with reading (as I did in school), you got poor grades despite the fact that your grammar, writing, and spelling were otherwise excellent. Very rarely did I get a teacher who rewarded reading; most of them punished my failure to read.
“Book It” had nothing to do with Grades, just raw effort. In my area at least, but I thought it was pretty universal in its execution.
My 5th grade teacher killed my desire to read at an early age when she banned the class from reading Goosebumps during “Pleasure reading time”.
I hate to break it to you, but that almost certainly came from some karen that didn’t want their individual son or daughter to be reading it. So they raised a big fuss with the teacher for principle to get the books banned in your classroom.
That’s exactly what it was! She had twins at the same grade level and she didn’t want them reading those books. This was in South Carolina, so this type of behavior was expected. The Karen’s ruled South Carolina…
That monster. Goosebumps was a foundational part of my lifelong love of reading.
That’s ridiculous of them.
Aye, bada-bing, bada-boom.
