40 Book Challenge FREEBIES Every Teacher Needs

One of my favorite things to do is encourage my readers to read more than they've ever read before! So I incorporate a book challenge into our reader's workshop. This year we started the challenge on the first day of school and we talk about it every day. I keep track of the books I read on our classroom door. And my readers keep track of the books they complete in their Reading Workshop Binder and on our Book Challenge Bulletin Board. 

How cool is my door?? I love seeing the books I read increase throughout the year, and I love talking about these books with my own readers and other readers who notice a cover while in the hallway. I hate having to take them down at the end of the year, but I also can't wait to start again each year.

If you'd like to make a similar display on your door or a classroom bulletin board, click HERE for an editable FREE Book Challenge poster of your own.

While I keep track of my book challenge progress on our classroom door, I mentioned earlier that my readers keep track of the books they read in their reading binders.  I created these record keeping pages for my students to log their progress.  And because I'm so excited for YOU to incorporate a book challenge into your classroom, I'm giving away these record keeping sheets for FREE!

Click HERE for the FREE  book challenge record keeping pages.  I pulled these pages out of my Reading Workshop Binder which is full of EVERYTHING you need to keep your reading workshop running smoothly and organized.

The record keeping sheets help my students stay on track with their book challenge progress. I collect them at the end of each marking period to confer with each student about their progress.

If you want a quicker way to monitor each student's finished books, you can have them display their progress with this FREE Book Challenge Bulletin Board Set.

With this set, not only will you hear about your students' progress during status of the class updates, strategy groups and conferring, but you'll also SEE their progress at a glance.

This set helps my readers to show off how many books they read, along with me, and I can quickly see the progress of each student. We also keep a total running record of our books read and have a little friendly competition with some neighboring 5th grade classrooms.  Gotta love a good competition!

Similar to many of you,  I do not have a lot of wall space available in my classroom, so this set includes large and small Book Challenge letters.  I also created individual book squares students can fill out and post as they finish books, and 5 book recording book marks that students fill out and post as they complete 5 books (to save space).  I use the smaller set of heading letters and the 5 book tracking rectangles here!

I would love to hear about how you are incorporating a book challenge into your classroom! 

Happy reading!!!