How it works Reading Link Challenge Student Newsletter (pdf, 206kb)
Reading Link Challenge Mission
Goals
1. To ensure the participation of children with lower reading scores throughout the region.
2. To foster teamwork and cooperative thinking.
3. To build strong relationships between public libraries and local schools.
4. To share quality children’s literature with participants that represents.
History
In the later 1930s, the Battle of the Books was a weekly radio show that used a quiz bowl format to test children’s knowledge of good literature. Questions about characters, plots and settings were answered by teams representing different elementary schools.
The Battle of the Books program moved to a library setting in 1993 at Kalamazoo Public Library (Michigan). It was used to encourage Grade 4 and 5 students to have fun with reading. In 1996, a similar project was undertaken at Seattle Public Library. In 2002, Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam Public Libraries joined the challenge, and in 2004 the entire Fraser Valley Regional Library came on board. In 2009, 298 teams from 81 schools in the Fraser Valley participated.
The winner of the Fraser Valley Grand Challenge will compete in the Global Reading Challenge, a video conference with other libraries throughout British Columbia and the U.S.
Reading Link Challenge titles for 2010 are as follows: