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Bragmarks are a bit of a hybrid—a cross between a Brag Tag and a bookmark. I use them with my students to motivate them to READ READ READ and to take AR tests. A few times a week, I go onto Accelerated Reader and check all the AR tests my students have taken. If someone has taken and passed a test with an 80% score or higher, I give them a Bragmark. The kids hole-punch them in the corner and attach them to a little silver binder ring, which also hold all of their brag tags. Since implementi

Bragmarks are a bit of a hybrid—a cross between a Brag Tag and a bookmark. I use them with my students to motivate them to READ READ READ and to take AR tests. A few times a week, I go onto Accelerated Reader and check all the AR tests my students have taken. If someone has taken and passed a test with an 80% score or higher, I give them a Bragmark. The kids hole-punch them in the corner and attach them to a little silver binder ring, which also hold all of their brag tags. Since implementi

I used this with my class when we wrote a persuasive letter. After reading the book "The Spider and the Fly", the kids were given the assignment to write a letter to humans from the point of view of the spider, to persuade them that spiders aren't so bad after all. For more ideas on this and other things, visit my blog: teachingpoweredbycaffeine.blogspot.com Thanks for downloading! I'd really appreciate if you'd please leave feedback and become a follower of my store. : )

What’s a BragMark? It’s brag tag in bookmark form! And it’s all the rage in my classroom! Brag Tags are very popular in classrooms across the country. Kids earn them for all kinds of reasons, and because there’s so many styles, they love to collect them---on a ball-chain necklace or on a silver clip-ring (which is how my students store their Brag Tags and BragMarks.) For some reason, the majority of my class just wasn’t too keen on doing their silent reading and AR testing. Since Brag Tags a