get four books to read — a huge hit at my school.
i usually have a book talk with my third and fourth graders — never, ever giving away the ending —preferably a series, so they will want to run out to the public library to read the series!
we had a summer reading drive-by one year. we packed three to four books in bags and handed them out to families that drove by the school at certain times each week. the next week they would come back and exchange their books if they wanted new ones to read. they could also write on the bags and answer questions we wrote on 