For all of us, being rewarded for our efforts can be a powerful motivator to keep working hard.
An intrinsic reward is an intangible award of recognition, a sense of achievement or satisfaction. We get this from being acknowledged, or just from knowing that we’ve done a good job or our best. But an extrinsic reward, on the other hand, is an award that is tangible or physically given to you for accomplishing something. At school, particularly in the primary classroom, this might traditionally take the form of stamps, stickers or even certificates.
The way primary classrooms themselves are decorated and arranged also feeds into student motivation. It’s important that primary classrooms be engaging, with decorations that reinforce elements of instruction and repeat concepts. But some research suggests classrooms can be too heavily decorated, and that bombarding students with too much visual stimuli can have the opposite effect – namely, serving to distract students from tasks.
CARS & STARS Online is a unique digital reading comprehension program based on the repeated application of twelve central reading strategies. The program spans from pre-reading to year nine level, and works on any relatively modern device with an internet connection, which means it functions just as well at home as it does in the classroom – making it ideal for distance learning.
While CARS & STARS Online is a purely digital program, the rewards of reading don’t have to be. Hawker Brownlow Digital now sells sets of colourful, glossy stickers that serve to highlight the 12 main reading strategies featured in the CARS & STARS series. Ideal for rewarding students for their efforts in the classroom or at home while reinforcing concepts at the same time, they also serve as a perfect quick-reference guide for teachers and students alike.
Classroom posters, when employed well and sparingly, can help with concentration in the classroom and provide a form of passive learning as students have concepts gently reinforced for them by their presence around the room. CARS & STARS Online posters are colourful and glossy, highlighting the 12 main reading strategies featured in the program for everyone. Ideal for classroom display, they offer brief and clear summaries of each of the 12 strategies.
If you are interested in learning more about the CARS & STARS Online subscriptions and how they can help children to achieve better results, then sign up for a free trial to be an integral part of your child’s reading success.
