Iowa Goldfinch Book Award 2025 Nominees Digital Book BINGO

Iowa Goldfinch Award

2024-2025 Nominees

Digital Book BINGO

with Google Slide Student BINGO Boards

Want to encourage your students to discover and explore books nominated

for the 2024-2025 Iowa Goldfinch Award?

Do you use Accelerated Reader, OR have other book quiz options available?

This EDITABLE Google Slides Book BINGO project, integrating technology and reading, can be an engaging way to continue to expand your students’ experience with a variety of authors and genres!

* I originally created Reading Book BINGO activities to have an additional, fresh approach using Accelerated Reader. Any book quiz option will add student accountability to this project.

* I wanted my students to build confidence and stamina as independent readers, refine and improve their listening skills, AND develop a sense of what they enjoyed reading or listening to being read aloud.

* I wanted my students to visit the Library with enthusiasm, selecting books by an author they've come to enjoy, a genre that has them hooked, excited about the next book in an author’s series, gain comfort and confidence exploring nonfiction, or exploring an author or genre that might be something my students wouldn’t ordinarily select.

* I wanted to encourage my students to embrace the understanding that adults do not choose a book to read because of the thickness of the book spine, OR the number of Accelerated Reader or Reading Counts points a book might be worth, OR the Reading Level or Lexile Level assigned to it.

* Accelerated Reader or Reading Counts gave me a simple way to confirm a book had been read and understood, adding student accountability to any book BINGO projects I developed. Read OR listen to a book… take a quiz… choose another book to read OR listen to… was our mantra.

I did NOT ask students to choose independent reading material by Reading level or Lexile level. I did NOT worry about Reading level or Lexile level assigned to books I read aloud. In my opinion, Reading or Lexile levels don’t need to define your students. Sharing an article I read about that HERE.

This classroom-tested product file includes:

* a Google Slide Book BINGO Board to assign to your students through Google Classroom, Schoology, Brightspace, etc.

Students will select any 3 books to read OR listen to being read aloud, from the 14 Iowa Goldfinch Award 2024-2025 Nominee choices given.

The Google Slide Student Book Bingo Board file is EDITABLE! Iowa Goldfinch Award Nominee book cover images may be added to or deleted from the Google Slide Student Book Bingo Board file by teachers, adjusting for a best fit for individual classrooms.

The Google Slide Student Book BINGO board includes blank spaces for students to place 3 book cover images across, 3 down, or 3 on the diagonal, extending the learning about the Iowa Goldfinch Award Nominee favorites.

Your students will drag and drop each of 3 book cover images, showing what they’ve chosen to read or listened to read aloud, and place on their own, individual BINGO boards, making each board unique.

Making a copy of the Student Book BINGO Board Google Slide file into your own Google Drive does NOT need TPT to have access to your Google Drive.

Download or print the pdf file of the list of books included, with Accelerated Reader quiz numbers referenced for convenience, in my Iowa Goldfinch Award 2024-2025 Nominees Digital Book BINGO:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Arh_eOwc--Vq_M3H6CACR8xKAmlB6TrG/view