Montclair Newbery Club
Our next meeting is Wed. 11/25, during lunch, in the Media Center ; )
The Montclair Information Center Newbery Club provides students an opportunity to be recognized for choosing to read quality literature.
All students in the fourth and fifth grade may participate in the Newbery Club. The Newbery prize is the highest honor awarded to an author of children's books. Each year the best book and several honor books are chosen by a panel of librarians, teachers, and publishers. To qualify for Newbery Club students must follow these guidelines:
1. Students must read 10 Newbery award winning books and pass a comprehension-oriented test over each before the second Friday of May of the current school year.
2. A passing grade on any test is considered to be 80% or better.
3. Books may not be used during most tests.
4. Tests may be taken anytime during school.
5. Newbery honor books do count .
6. Students may count up to 3 Newbery winners read aloud in class if they can pass the test.
7. There is 1 retake of a test not passed. However, it will probably be a different test.
8. All books must be completed during the current school year. Summer reading completed before the 5th grade can be used if the student can pass the test over the book.
9. Students who have completed the books and passed the 10 tests before the second Friday in May of the current school year will have their name engraved on the Newbery plaque in the Information Center, receive a Newbery t-shirt and will be invited to an end-of-school-year celebration.
10. Students who have passed at least one new Newbery test that quarter are invited to the monthly Newbery lunches in the Media Center.
