Charlie May Simon: Tournament of Titles R.E. Baker Elementary Bentonville

Why have the tournament? O Promote award winning books O Inspire students to read the CMS nominees O Implement a program to unify the 4 th graders O Promote literacy throughout the school O Motivate the students to read

Where did the idea for a CMS competition originate? O Assistant Principal, Mrs. Hurlburt, suggested some type of school book tournament. O Our neighboring middle school participates in a middle level Battle of the Books. O My first year only 20 students were eligible to vote for the CMS 2014 winner. O Through past experiences we knew that students were not checking out and reading CMS books.

First Step O Brainstormed people that would be willing to participate. O Looked for people that would make this a well rounded and represented committee. O Brittany Fleming : Library Media Specialist O Blair Ballard: 4 th Grade Literacy O Carolyn Myrick: Literacy Coach O Karen McGuirt: Reading Interventionist O Amy Hurlburt: Assistant Principal

Next Step O We divided up the books. Each committee member was responsible for reading 2 nominees. O Each committee member was responsible for creating 10 questions from their book. O We decided on a theme; March Madness. O Voting took place in March O NCAA would be going on O A fun way to promote the program

What did the students do? 1. Read the book or teacher read book 2. Take the quiz 3. Put up their basket ball 4. Voted for their favorite CMS

Tournament of Titles O Used basketballs, we randomly picked teams for each class. O 5 members and 2 alternates O Way too many! O Had the tournament in June. All 3 rd and 4 th graders attended. O Had a quiz bowl style tournament

Tournament of Titles

Post Tournament O Met to discuss changes to the tournament O Made summer reading list which was the CMS nominees O Went to all the 3 rd grade classrooms and book talked the new list O Gave the new list to all current 4 th graders O Met in June to plan CMS Tournament of Titles O Asked PTO to donate a set of CMS books to every 3 rd and 4 th grade classroom

Tournament Changes O Implement charm bracelets

Tournament Changes O Gave Celebration Books to the students who read all 13

Tournament Changes O Had randoms drawing for students who have read the books

Tournament Changes O Made a CMS Recommendation bulletin board

Tournament Changes O Had student led book talks – Book Talk Tuesdays

Tournament Changes O Organized a Tournament of Titles against another school

Tournament Changes O Google Document voting

Tournament Changes O Ordered t-shirts for tournament teams

Tournament Changes O Bought banner for class winner O Bought banner for school winner

Budgeting for Program O Copies for library use (at least 3 copies of each) O Copies for each classroom teacher (purchased by PTO) O Charms and bracelets O Banners for winners O T-shirts for teams: around Prizes for random drawings