Reading Challenge
Welcome to the Library Reading Challenges!
Guidelines for Caldecott Challenge:
- Students must read 50 Caldecott Award winning books before leaving Mountain View.
- Books must be from 50 different publication years.
- Students turn in a response sheet for each book they read. Response sheets are available in the library or you can print them off the website, below. A Google Form version of the response sheet is also available here.
- Library personnel will track all returned sheets.
- Students are eligible to participate from 1st to 5th grade.
- Document: Response - Caldecott - pdf (1).pdf
Guidelines for Newbery Challenge:
- Students must read 25 Newbery Award winning books before leaving Mountain View.
- Students turn in a response sheet for each book they read. Response sheets are available in the library or you can print them off the website, below. A Google Form version of the response sheet is also available here.
- Library personnel will track all returned sheets.
- Students are eligible to participate from 3rd to 5th grade.
- Document: Response Newbery pdf.pdf
Guidelines for Non-fiction Challenge:
- Students must read 50 Non-fiction books before leaving Mountain View.
- Students must read at least one book from each "100" in the Dewey decimal system including a biography.
- Students turn in a response sheet for each book they read. Response sheets are available in the library or you can print them off the website, below. Please note that there is a response sheet for grades 1-2 and a different response sheet for grades 3-5. A Google Form version of the response sheet is also available here for grades 1 and 2, and here for grades 3-5.
- Library personnel will track all returned sheets.
- Students are eligible to participate from 1st to 5th grade.
- Documents: Nonfiction Response Sheet K-2 students.pdf | Nonfiction Response Sheet Grades 3-5.pdf
READING CHALLENGES MUST BE STARTED BY JANUARY 1 TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN AWARD IN THAT SCHOOL YEAR.