TARGET : Promoting State Reading List for MS

[Elizabeth Poole Dumas <dumas@OPSB.NET>]

This year in Louisiana we will have a Louisiana Young Reader's Choice contest
for middle school students (grades 6-8). They will select and read books from
a list of 15 books of various genres which have been chosen by a committee of
librarians around the state. In January students who have read 3-5 books on
the list can vote for their favorite.  School librarians and public librarians
tally the results and send them to our state library.  The winning
author/title is announced and presented an award later in the year during a
special ceremony.
I would like suggestions from other middle school librarians as to how you
promote this type of program with your students and teachers, activities you
use in the library and how you handle the voting process.  Questions have come
up about how to keep students "honest" about how many books they have really
read. Also, do any teachers sometimes use this for extra credit in their
classes and how do you assess whether the books were read without makeing
extra work for teachers or alot of extra work for yourself?
I have worked with this program on the elementary level where I was on a fixed
schedule each week and saw all the students myself and the books were mainly
picture books, but would like ideas for the middle level.

Elizabeth P. Dumas, LMS
Good Hope Middle School
400 Good Hope Road
West Monroe, LA  71291
Phone: 318 396-9693 FAX: 318 397-5110
Web: www.ghms.net

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