Information
Information
Each middle school and elementary school in Humble ISD is allowed a team of 3-6 students to bring to the district competition.
Team sponsors are responsible for arranging parent permission and transportation for team members to and from the competition.
Each team must have a team name and create a poster displaying that name. Posters will be taped to each team’s table on the day of the event to identify the team to the judges. Posters should be legible and large enough to read at the front of the room.
“Uniforms” are not required, but teams are encouraged to display school and team spirit!
The Books
Twelve titles are chosen from the current Texas Lone Star List, Texas Bluebonnet Award List, Texas Maverick List, Texas Topaz List, and ProjectLIT book list.
See the list of books on each page: Middle School Books and Elementary School Books.
Questions
Questions will come from the 12 books chosen. Questions may be multiple choice, short answer, true/false, identifying a quote, or identifying a book. Questions may come from the body of the book, illustrations, glossary, author notes, or any other information provided by the author.
Procedures
Warm Up Round (Elementary ONLY)
Title/Author matching round for points only. There will be NO elimination after this round.
Round 1
Round 1 will consist of 40 questions worth 1 point each. A question will be read and teams have 15 seconds to discuss and answer. All teams will display their answers at the same time.
After Round 1, the top half of the teams will continue on to Round 2.
Round 2
Round 2 will consist of 24 questions.
Titles of books must be written exactly as displayed on the Title List and must be spelled correctly. No partial credit will be given.
When required, authors’ last names must be spelled correctly.
For short answer questions, answers should be easily recognized. If a word is misspelled, the judges’ discretion is final as to whether an answer is correct or not.
The top 2 teams of Round 2 will move on to Round 3.
Round 3
The third round will consist of speed questions and contestants answer by using a buzzer. There will be 12 questions.
Challenges to Questions
There will be no challenges allowed.