Book Madness: Details for Setup and Implementation - Book tournament to coincide with the March college basketball tournament

Well friends, I have never been so excited for a sporting event. In fact, this past weekend, I had to employ every bit of knowledge I have about the NCAA tournament (i.e. please read that as very little knowledge). 😉 Our newest book display is up and I’m SO excited to share it with you. Even...

The Brown-Bag Teacher: Book Madness {March Book Display}

Create your own book tournament bracket, a perfect passive program for any age pitting book against book in the ultimate showdown.

Planning March Book Madness in 2021?! Let me help you choose books, engage students, and plan activities! Choose books...

Well friends, I have never been so excited for a sporting event. In fact, this past weekend, I had to employ every bit of knowledge I have about the NCAA tournament (i.e. please read that as very little knowledge). 😉 Our newest book display is up and I’m SO excited to share it with you. Even...

Hello, friends! It's Christmas break for me and I'm taking a few minutes to plan ahead for the new year! Last year our first graders hosted a Tournament of Books and it was a huge success so we're getting ready to host one again this year! The first thing I did was put up this huge bracket in the main hallway of our school. It generated a ton of buzz around the school, especially before we shared any details about what we were actually planning! The Brown Bag Teacher has bracket printables…

March is known as the month of brackets. In recent years, tournament style book battles have been adopted by libraries and cl...

Battle of the Books...and EVERYTHING you need to set it up in your own classroom...for FREE

The past few years I have done a Tournament of Books designed around March Madness. The Brown Bag Teacher has a free display printable. This year I decided very last minute that I wanted to do a tournament with my students.. It took me about 2 hours to select the books and prepare a digital bracket for my students to view on our smart board. If you have been following me you know that I am passionate about being representative to cultures and abilities in my classroom. With that in mind, I…