About the Readers Cup

The event consists of three separate competitions - Younger Readers, Older Readers, and Mature Readers. The Younger and Older reader categories have 6 books, while the Mature category has 4 books. The selection of books will be a subset of the Red Dot books in those categories and will be announced in January.

Each competition consists of:

• • 4 or 6 Rounds with ten questions from each book (4 or 6 books), each answer worth 1 point

    • (Note: some questions are two-part, so 1/2 point is possible.) (Click here for a sample .Pre 2014 Format.)

Rounds will comprise of the following:

Short answers focusing on key plot points

Inferential/deeper meaning questions (1 for younger & older, 2 for mature)

• A multiple-choice written quiz with questions about all the books, each worth 1/4 point. (Click here for a sample.) This component will be undertaken on iPads using Socrative.

• Other ways to win (besides the quiz portion)

Best Book Trailer - prepared and submitted by schools ahead of time, shown in between rounds. Each trailer no more than 3 minutes long. Marked out of 10

Best Alternate Book Cover - prepared and submitted by schools ahead of time

The Book Rounds are timed. 4 minutes maximum, with 10% BONUS points if your team hands in the short-answer written quiz within 3 minutes. So if your team got 7 answers correct and handed in the sheet within 3 minutes, you would get 7.7 points for the round, and if your team got all 10 answers correct and handed in the sheet within 3 minutes, you would get 11 points.

The multiple-choice written quiz is filled in over the course of the competition -- handed in at the end of round 4 -- to be included in the final score. Each multiple choice answer is worth 1/4 point.