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Newbery Winners?You be the judge!
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Why do a Newbery Selection Project?
• Encourages students to read
• Gives them a ready choice for independent reading times
• Encourages book discussion, since once a student reads one of the books and likes it, they are very enthusiastic about recommending it to others
• Opportunity for meaningful collaboration between the SLMS and classroom teacher(s)
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What makes this different and easier than traditional Mock Newbery
Projects? • Working with a classroom teacher, you
have an automatic “committee” of 20-25 kids.
• The books sell themselves when a class is reading together and recommending the books to each other.
• You and the teacher are both monitoring the progress, lightening the load.
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Choosing a Teacher to Work With
This project is an easy sell. Every school has at least one teacher who loves to see their students
reading and will jump at any opportunity to encourage it. Pitch this project and you might find a
new best friend!
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Each year since 2006, 6th Grade Teacher Mr. Ken
Rogoyski and I have collaborated on the
Newbery Project.
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We select books from reviews, blogs, other Mock
Newbery lists, and other sources. We aim to have
25-30 different titles, and 2 copies of a title when
possible.
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Book Selection Resources•Junior Library Guild•The Horn Book (now owned by JLG)
•School Library Journal Starred Reviews
•School Library Journal Blogs
•Other Mock Newbery Lists
(Google “Mock Newbery 2011”)
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How do I get these books?
• Interlibrary Loan• Your library’s collection• Book Fairs• Making a special purchase – it
is worthwhile, because you are adding quality books to your collection
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But It’s Not in my Budget…
Possible funding sources:• Teacher’s Center Grants• Student Council• PTA• Book Fair credit• Other Suggestions?
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Rolling Out the Project
We explain how the American Library Association gives out many book awards every year,
including the Newbery and Caldecott. We explain the
difference between the two, and read the ALA criteria for the
Newbery.
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Everyone’s a Critic!
We tell the students that this is their chance to be a book critic, that they will be reading some of the best books published in
the past year, and decide which ones they think deserve to win.
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Additional Criteria
We tell the students that we have observed some commonalities
in many (but not all) past Newbery Winners, and have our
own additional criteria. We have developed a form called
“And the winner is…”
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And the Winner is…
We pass out the forms and go over them. We tell students
they will fill one out after reading each book, and it
will help them make predictions.
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The Books
We explain how we have chosen from the books published in
2010, and that these are some of the best ones written this
year. I give brief book talks to highlight several of the titles.
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When all the books have been introduced, we begin to sign them out, and the students are given time
to begin reading immediately.
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Over the next few months, students read, excitedly
discuss and recommend their favorites, fill out their rating
forms, and choose new books as they finish others.
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Statistics and ratings are recorded throughout the
duration of the project. At any time, students can see each book’s rating and how many people have read it.
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The Home StretchAs the Awards ceremony
nears, we sign out last-chance books, go over the results and top predictions, and prepare for our Awards Party. We talk it up and tell them it is the “Oscars” of
the Book World!
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Celebration!We gather to watch the ALA Youth
Media Awards Webcast. It is festive and exciting! We have
snacks and invite other classes to join us. The kids get so excited when they see one of the books we have read win an award. We
encourage cheering for the winners!
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