{"id":2550,"date":"2016-03-24T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T17:44:53","slug":"the-2016-book-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/03\/24\/the-2016-book-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Book Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many educators think of February as <em>Love of Reading Month<\/em>, so it is especially fitting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akla.org\/akasl\/bb\/bbhome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battle of the Books <\/a>takes place during that month. Sixty-five KPBSD teams participated in this year\u2019s district competition. All did an awesome job. Most of the battles took place using audio conference technology with the final round teams competing using video conference. All agreed it was an added bonus to \u201csee\u201d the other teams.<br \/>\n<strong>Congratulations to the following teams that made it to the final round of competition!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grades 3 &amp; 4<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Cooper-Landing-School-400885030011502\/\">Cooper Landing School<\/a>-1st Place; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Connections-Homeschool-120592904712890\/\">Homer Connections Homeschool<\/a> -2nd Place; Sterling Elementary-3rd Place; and West Homer-4th Place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grades 5 &amp; 6<\/strong> \u2013 K-Beach Elementary-1st Place; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Connections-Homeschool-120592904712890\/\">Soldotna Connections homeschool<\/a> &#8211; 2nd Place; Homer Connections Homeschool -3rd Place; and West Homer Elementary -4th Place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Middle School<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NikiskiMiddleHighSchool\/\">Nikiski Middle-High School<\/a>-1st Place; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kenai-Middle-School-185704091616192\/\">Kenai Middle School<\/a> -2nd Place; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Susan-B-English-School-533888543356724\/\">Susan B. English School<\/a> -3rd Place; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/River-City-Academy-171856496348428\/\">River City Academy<\/a> -4th Place<\/li>\n<li><strong>High School<\/strong> \u2013 Soldotna High School\u20131st Place; Susan B. English School -2nd Place; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kenai-Central-High-School-483969444948275\/?fref=ts\">Kenai Central High School<\/a> and Nikiski Middle-High School- Tie for 3rd Place; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Homer-High-School\/108130482547770\">Homer High School<\/a>-5<sup>th<\/sup> Place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2552\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2016\/03\/0-COVER-2-CL-006-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2552\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2016\/03\/0-COVER-2-CL-006-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cooper Landing School\" width=\"517\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooper Landing School<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBattle of the Books is a statewide reading and comprehension program sponsored by the Alaska Association of School Librarians. The goals of the program are to encourage and recognize students who enjoy reading, broaden reading interests, increase reading comprehension, and promote academic excellence. All this is accomplished through a game-show style competition known simply as \u201cBOB\u201d.<br \/>\nLists of books are chosen and questions are written for all the grade levels. Students read the books (fifteen titles for Grades 3-6 and twelve titles for Grades 7-12), quiz each other, learn title and author information, and compete in teams of no more than three students attempting to score as many points as possible answering questions related to the books. Battle questions all begin with the words, \u201cIn which book\u201d. Students are allowed thirty seconds to confer with team members and come up with an answer which is always the title and author of a book on the list.<br \/>\nOur district-winning teams moved on to the Alaska state competitions held the end of February. Our teams represented our district well placing as follows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>High School \u2013 Soldotna High School tied for 5<sup>th<\/sup> place (24 teams)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Middle School \u2013 Nikiski Middle-High School, 7<sup>th<\/sup> place (29 teams)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Grades 5\/6 \u2013 K-Beach Elementary, 11<sup>th<\/sup> place (35 teams)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Grades 3\/4 \u2013 Cooper Landing School, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place (34 teams)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Book lists for next year\u2019s battles were chosen by members of the Alaska Association of School Librarians at their state conference on March 12, 2016. The list is posted at the State Battle of the Book&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akla.org\/akasl\/bb\/bbhome.html\">website.<\/a><br \/>\nView photos of all the teams on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kpbsd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBSD Facebook page<\/a>, 2016 Battle of the Books photo album<br \/>\nStory contributed by Karla Barkman, District Battle of the Books Coordinator<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2554\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2554\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2016\/03\/Kaleidoscop-3-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2554\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2016\/03\/Kaleidoscop-3-4-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Kaleidoscope School of Arts &amp; Science\" width=\"425\" height=\"567\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaleidoscope School of Arts &amp; Science<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2553\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2016\/03\/WHE2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2553\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2016\/03\/WHE2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"West Homer Elementary\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Homer Elementary<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many educators think of February as Love of Reading Month, so it is especially fitting that Battle of the Books takes place during that month. Sixty-five KPBSD teams participated in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/03\/24\/the-2016-book-battle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2016 Book Battle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[171,649,828],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpbsd-district-stories","tag-battle-of-the-books","tag-literacy","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}