Break Out Your Reading Skills!

 Break Out Your Reading Skills Challenge

This challenge will ask our readers to READ a piece of non-fiction.  Then answer 5 questions to get a code.  If they get all 5 answers correct their code should unlock the snack box to BREAK out a snack for you and a friend.  If you get the first 4 answers correct you should have the code to BREAK out one snack for yourself.  

So I have three cards of five questions each.  These questions are STAAR formatted to keep it familiar to students, and are based on 7th & 8th Grade reading TEKS. Each question tells you page numbers, so you really don't have to read the whole book but you can read parts of the articles or stories in it to answer the questions.  Like a short article, or quick story, no more than two or three pages each.

Students try a story, to see if their code unlocks the lock.  I am using the following non-fiction books:

The Queen's Shadow - A Story about How Animals See by Cybele Young

Shark Life - by Peter Benchley

Before we Go Extinct by  Karen Rivers 

World of Wonder - Mimicry & Camouflage by Mary Hoff

Crow Smarts Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird - by Pamela S. Turner

Skin like Milk, Hair of Silk - What are Similes & Metaphors? by Brian P. Cleary

I am keeping the Code breaker Card so they can't just put in those numbers and as they give me their answers - I will write the code beside their letter choice.   We shall see how it goes.  I am totally making this up as I go, I hope it works.  I am hoping the kids like it and try it more than once.  I think each week I will change the code or after each winner so that way it will last longer.