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St. Joseph
Cathedral
School
Library
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Award Nominees
Missouri Association of School Librarians sponsors Children choice book awards each year. This year St. Joseph Cathedral School library is participation in three of these programs.
The Show Me Readers Award -The purpose of this award is to promote literature, literacy, and reading in Missouri elementary schools for grades 1 through 3.
The Mark Twain Award The purpose of the Mark Twain Award is to provide the children of Missouri in grades 4 through 8 with a source to enrich their lives through reading.
The Truman Readers Award- The purpose of this award is to encourage students in grades 6-8 to experience new literary genres, and to communicate with their peers about young adult literature.
Students will spend the next 6 months reading titles from these various programs.(Show Me Award books will be read aloud to students in the library.) In March, those students who have listened to or read at least 4 titles from their award list will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite book. These votes will be submitted along with other Missouri schools for a final title winner. Visit www.maslonline.org for more information about these programs, as well as the current list of titles.
Battle of the Books
The Battle of the Books is a voluntary program that kicks off in September when students begin to read at least 6 of the 12 titles that are the current Mark Twain or Truman Award nominees for 2008-09. From September through March, students listen to or read from the list, with a goal of reading all 6 titles. When the students complete a title, they are tested on our computer generated Reading Counts program.
At the beginning of April, a qualifying test is given to determine which students will qualify for the school battle. Teams of 4-5 students will be formed to compete in the school battle, which will be held during National Library Week, April 12-18.
Scholastic Reading Counts
Scholastic Reading Counts is a literature-based reading motivation and management program that is designed to get students to read and to help educators manage and monitor their students’ reading.
Once, a student completes a book at their reading level, they are asked to take a quiz in the computer lab or his/her classroom. Students earn points at the completion of these quizzes.
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