Rockerbox News Rewards and Challenges During the 2023-2024 School Year

The Rockerbox Reading Challenge

Though the use of rewards for reading continues to be debated, recent studies indicate that carefully selected rewards can support and not undermine reading motivation. Specifically, students who were given a book were more motivated to engage in subsequent reading than the students who received an unrelated reward. That's why the Rockerbox Reading Challenge provides you with the opportunity to purchase more reading materials for your class EVERY HALF TERM!

The Rockerbox Reading Challenge is also designed to help your pupils work on active reading skills and metacognition. Learn more about Metacognition and the Rockerbox Reading Challenge.

Frequency: Every half term

Who can participate: Every class with a Rockerbox subscription. You'll be automatically enrolled in the challenges unless you tell us you don't want to take part.

How does it work?

• When pupils read an article and answer all the related questions, the platform records that they've read 1 article.
• When pupils hit key milestones throughout the half term - 25, 50, 100, and 200 articles read - they'll receive a certificate
• You can download your certificates throughout the half term in the Class History tab on your teacher dashboard on in your Classes tab in your school dashboard.
• The winners of the challenge are the classes with the highest average number of reads per pupil in the class.

Please note: There needs to be a minimum of 5 pupils in a class who take part. If there are fewer than 5 pupils in your class, our algorithm will still divide by 5 for the purpose of the average.

The Prizes:

The Challenge Dates:

*Each challenge will run for exactly 6 weeks from the start date*

**Please note the Spring 1 Challenge start date has been revised and will now commence on Monday 8th January 2024**