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What is the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl?

What is the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl?. What is the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl?.

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What is the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl?

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  1. What is the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl?

  2. What is the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl? • Mrs. Helen Ruffin created the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl to be a reading competition in game format. She wanted to have teams of students from different schools compete to test their knowledge of the selected books. • The Reading Bowl takes place in Cobb County each year, in late January/early February. Competitors read the chapter book nominees for the Georgia Book Award. Students compete on factual knowledge of these books.

  3. What is the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl? • The winners of the Cobb County Reading Bowl will proceed to the regional Reading Bowl competition. • The Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl is open to students in grades four through 12 across the state. The competition is all about recognizing readers and sharing the love of reading. • Each school can send a team of 10 students to compete in the Reading Bowl.

  4. Why should YOU join the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl team?

  5. Use the cool buzzer thingies!

  6. Compete with students from other elementary schools!

  7. Learn good sportsmanship!

  8. Have FUN with your teammates!

  9. You might win BIG!

  10. What happens during the Reading Bowl?

  11. All teams participate in the Parade of Schools

  12. Proctors ask questions about the books you’ve read

  13. Students compete against each other for the most points

  14. The teams with the most points win an award!

  15. Preparing for the Bowl • Reading Bowl Team meets every week • Read the books nominated for the Georgia Book Award • Write questions about the books you read • Conduct practice rounds with your teammates

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