Collaborate with your school librarian to incentivize students to check out English books!
Hide tickets in English books at the school library OR have librarian give out tickets when students check out an English book. (My library has 207 English books in one small section, and we went with the latter option.)
Promote the tickets through the homeroom teachers (any students can participate!)
Students will receive a ticket from the library, but must give the ticket to you to exchange it for a prize (I bought stickers and erasers on Amazon).
Students can solve the cipher on the back for an extra prize!
This helps out your school librarian, who works very hard to get students to check out materials, and this also encourages your students to browse through the English books available!
Canva Link (Edit-able tickets): https://www.canva.com/design/DAGTmuvZQ-8/yvxBqTtEtndFyhz9XR3CvQ/edit?utm_content=DAGTmuvZQ-8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Canva Link (Non-edit-able ticket grid for reference): https://www.canva.com/design/DAGTnCFnl-Y/2oeY_WHHt8DonpqsZiuklg/edit?utm_content=DAGTnCFnl-Y&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Puzzles/Ciphers:
A=1, Z=26
(If you ask AI to solve it for you, it will be sort of right at first but then it will guess the rest of the message and be super wrong)
Learning English is a frightfully fun adventure
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Get lost in a hauntingly good English book
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Reading English is spook-tacular
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The best treat is a good English book
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Read English by the light of a jack-o-lantern
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Nothing is spookier than learning something new
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Reading English is candy for your brain
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Spooky skeletons read English at dawn
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