In January at the start of the new year, we challenged our middle school readers to read and explore different genres. Our library is set up by genres (Mystery, Realistic, Historical, Fantasy, Sports, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Romance, Graphic Novels, and Nonfiction -of course). The idea was for students to fill out a bookmark with the titles they read between January and May and try at least 8 of the 11 genres.
In May we surveyed our stack of completed bookmarks and sent out invitations for our Elite Reader Celebration. We ended up with about 30 of our top readers who we celebrated by giving them a free book that they chose, providing snacks, and playing an awesome book game called Bring Your Own Book!
Bring Your Own Book has a free online version that we printed (and read through to take out any inappropriate prompts). Each student used their free book to hunt down an answer to each prompt and then shared with the group. It was a hilarious romp through books with them looking for answers to prompts like Something you are surprised to find in a pocket or A line from a teenager's diary or Don't open an email with this subject line!
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