On
Monday I introduced the 6th graders to the Rebecca Caudill Young
Readers Book Award for 2013. 6th graders will be eligible to vote for
this award in late February by reading or listening to 3 of the 20
nominated books. Using the Mimio technology I booktalked all 20
books within a period. With a separate frame for each title, I used reveal frames to
hide the book cover, genre, main characters, and a one sentence
summary. As I talked about the book, I revealed this information one
at a time to the students. Students had a sheet listing all the books
with a column for notes and were instructed to choose 5 or 6 titles
that sounded interesting as potential books to read. While the IMC
has multiple copies of all the books, it often happens that the
wanted book is not available when a student is ready for it. The next
3 book reports for 6th grader will be books from the Caudill 2013
list, thus making students eligible to vote. For each book students
will take an Accelerated Reader quiz as part of their book report. I
encouraged the students to be educated voters and read as many titles
as they can. We have a 2013 Club in the IMC that honors anyone who
has read all 20 titles from the 2013 list by the end of the school
year. Mrs. Wilson and I are founders of this club (even though we
don't get to vote) as we read all 20 books to better help students in
making selections, but any student in any grade is welcome to join
us. The complete list of nominees can be found with a link on the
Lakeview Library webpage. Mrs. Wilson and I agree that all 2013
nominees are winners.
