We will celebrate March Madness with a book bracket. Students will listen to books and select their favorites in a bracket-style voting process over the course of the month. In some cases teachers will read aloud some of the books to their classes. In others students will enjoy listening to Mrs. Kershner and Mrs. Paige read-aloud the books over lunch, as they typically do every day. Students will vote on their favorite choices until we narrow down the Venable All-Star book choice for March. Large posters of the brackets will be posted in front of the Venable library and outside the cafeteria so we can observe the choices in progress. Students will help gather and tally the data. I will update the brackets on this blog over the course of the month.
Each bracket includes one book published in 2014 and one classic.
We encourage you to read the books at home as well and track your voting choices as a family. Below is a PDF of the brackets.
Each bracket includes one book published in 2014 and one classic.
We encourage you to read the books at home as well and track your voting choices as a family. Below is a PDF of the brackets.
How do you make your voting choice? Here are a couple of guiding questions you can ask your child (or yourself) when making your choices.
- How are these 2 books similar and different? (characters, setting, problems, solutions, themes, author’s message, author’s purpose, illustrations)
- For older kids: If you were going to live on a desert island and could only take ONE of these books, which would you take? Remember this would be your only book AND you would be rereading it over and over again. What is it about your choice that would make it a better book to read again and again?
- For younger kids: If you were going to give one of these books as a present to someone you love, which one would you give them? Which one would the want to read over and over again? Which one would YOU want to read it over and over again?