Re: Contests with big books etc.

[Barbara Strack <Momstrack@AOL.COM>]

Just to add to this discussion--
        I don't know whether this will necessarily make life time readers, as
some have implied.  This is a slightly different situation, but there are
some similarities:  My husband considers himself a non-reader.  He reads the
daily paper, magazines, textbooks and technical manuals, but probably doesn't
read a novel once every 5 years.  As an adult he looks back at a 6th grade
reading contest:  not self-imposed, but school sponsored, the goal was the
most books read, not biggest book or most pages.  He won, and DID read the
book he won as prize, but very little since!
       My daughter did have a contest with a friend between 6th and 7th grade
to see who read the most pages, and won, and still loves to read as a college
sophomore, so it doesn't always backfire!

Barbara Strack
Orchard View M.S.
Muskegon, MI
momstrack@aol.com

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