Maplewood SchoolBattle of the Books
What is Battle of the Books?
“Overview: The Oregon Battle of the Books is a statewide reading motivation and comprehension program sponsored by the Oregon Association of School Librarians in conjunction with a Library Services and Technology Act grant. Students, regardless of ability, are exposed to quality literature representing a variety of literary styles and viewpoints. The goals of the program are to encourage and recognize students who enjoy reading, broaden reading interests, increase reading comprehension, and promote academic excellence. Lists of books are chosen and questions are written for elementary and middle school. Students read the books, discuss them, quiz each other on the contents, and then compete in teams of four students to correctly answer questions based on the books in a “quiz show” format.
Questions may begin with the words “In which book…” so that the answer will be a title and author or it may be a content question with the title of the book supplied. Teams may participate at local, district, regional and state levels of competition. An attempt is made to vary the titles chosen according to genre and difficulty so that readers may encounter a broad range of books.” (from the OBOB web site — http://www.oasl.info/OBOB/index.html .)
Teams form by December. Lunch time battles begin around February 1. Regional battles (with other schools in our regions) are in March!
The 2011-2012 book list! (for Maplewood 4th and 5th grade students)
Maplewood 3rd grader read the following shorter list:
Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet, Charlotte's Web, How Oliver Olson Changed the World, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, The Magical Ms. Plum, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Who Were the Beatles?
