Robin Dwight, Sharon Harman, Paula Hill, Betsy Mangalath, Cheri’ Toogood

HISD news clip

Clip of two rounds from an actual competition

Contact with

Districts Houston ISD, Aldine ISD, Cypress

Fairbanks ISD, Pasadena ISD,

Northeast ISD, Clarksville TN

TLC Survey

Student Surveys

chropee

“We hate to read”

“It’s

dumb”

To have fun Group work/all working together

Reading and answering questions Guessing the book title Nothing Being in a group Being with friends Seeing kids from other schools

Reading a lot of books Being on a team Winning Friends/parents cheering for you Prizes/trophy Going to final round

Competing Having fun Representing our school

“I didn’t know there were all these other people just

like me”

Begin pilot program using Battle of the

Books materials – then personalize it to

MISD once we have some experience

with the program

Battle of the Books