The King County Library System's Global Reading Challenge provides books and support for teams of 4th and 5th graders from Ridgecrest. Ten books are chosen by the KCLS librarians to be read by the students in preparation for questions in a Battle of the Books style competition.
Fourth and fifth grade classrooms are hearing about the GRC this week. Any student in those grades is eligible to participate. We want a variety of reading levels and interests, and the book list reflects a variety of reading levels and genres.
The requirements for students are:
- students are willing to read at least two of the ten books
- students will attend bi-weekly team meetings at lunchtime with Ms. Freeman and Mrs. Therriault in the library
- students will be prepared to work with their team to read and practice questions.
Last year we had six teams with 40 students participating. My hope is that we will exceed that number (we can have up to 7 teams with 49 students participating).
The book list this year is fabulous, and you can see the books and read more about the GRC on the KCLS GRC webpage.
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