[ISLMA-Share] Battle of the Books

Wed Sep 6 07:59:00 CDT 2017

I do BOB for grades 6-8. This year we are going to a Kahoot quiz like format instead of the typical in what book…..questions with the answers always being title and author.

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Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 3:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [ISLMA-Share] Battle of the Books

We follow March Book Madness (http://marchbookmadness.weebly.com/) in which students vote on their favorite books each week as elimination progresses.

Last year we had our 3rd and 4th grades do the Picture Book Bracket. With help from our local public library, we got enough of the books into teachers' hands that they could read most of the 16 nominees aloud during the first week. We kept the winners around so there could be additional discussion/read aloud as the weeks progressed. We created a bracket on a bulletin board in the 3/4 grade hallway, and moved the winners up each week. We also listed the winners in the morning broadcast, and showed the book covers. We didn't participate in the nation-wide online voting, as we were just learning the program. We might get into that eventually.

We had a few students who were interested in the MG novel bracket, and we had them create the bracket bulletin board in the media center. On that bracket, we kept track of both our winners and the nation-wide winners.

Our kids LOVED this, and were very excited each week to see which book won.

Chris Wilson

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
I do a battle with 6th - 8th.

Teams are volunteer, 4 or less students.
Team has 5 months to read all 20 Caudills - proof with submission of a google form I have created with general questions about theme, villians, conflicts, etc.
The battle takes place all on one day with a pizza party.  I have a permission slip and students miss 75% of their classes that day. Each grade competes against themselves, then the winning team from each grade level against each other, then the overall student winners against a team of teachers (who have yet to win!)
Questions are made by me and I get some from the Caudill Battle Wiki as well.

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
Is there a battle of the books set of questions for the Monarch books?

Lyndi Davis

Reading Teacher
Rogers Elementary
Waterloo, IL  62298

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
Hi all—

I am new to the school library this year and would like to start a Battle of the Books program in my school. We are an odd age range (4th-8th grade).

What does your BOTB process look like? Do you use award books (Bluestem and Monarch are what I’m considering)? Do all of the kids read the same books? How do you keep track of teams?

Do you use a buzzer system? Any recommended technology that has worked well for the competition process?

Any and all words of wisdom are greatly appreciated!
Lauren

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