Texas Bluebonnet Books 2021-2022, Tests, Review, and Summary Cards

Everything you need to facilitate Texas Bluebonnet Book reading in your classroom or library! Each title comes with two tests (one higher level, one lower level) with character matching and multiple choice questions. You also get editable versions in Word, as well as a summary sheet, and an icon cover art. Try a FREE SAMPLE OF ACT to see what's included for each title.
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Every year the Texas Library Association selects 20 books recommended for students in grades 3-6 to read. The TLA website has great resources for tracking which books the kids read, but I wanted something else for accountability of my students. This is why I made these tests!

The tests and summary sheets in this product are for kids to complete after they've finished the book. My goal was to create something that would be easy for kids that read the book in its entirety, even if the book was a little bit above their level. (No trick questions or inferencing questions) These are not meant for higher level thinking or questioning, but only to verify if a student read the book or not. They are very easy comprehension questions, low level of Bloom's.

With this product, you get:

Two versions of each test

--One higher level (20 multiple choice questions per chapter book, 10-15 for others)

--One lower level (10 multiple choice questions per chapter book, 5-10 for others)

--Answer key includes page numbers that match with the book

--EDITABLE versions of both tests (opens in Microsoft Word)

Full page cover sheets made with icon art

--Color version, dark border/titles, or all black and white to color in

Summary Sheets

--Color, summarize, sketch a scene, give a rating and recommendation

Try out my product with a FREE SAMPLE OF ACT so you can see my style and everything that is included! I will offer each title separately, but you'll save money buying it as a bundle. Feel free to contact me with any questions!

How do I use this in my classroom?

I'm a 5th grade language arts teacher, and my students have to read 10 of the bluebonnet books as part of one major grade for the year.  (I tell them about it in August, and they have until January to complete.)  I purchase enough of the chapter books for the kids to use them in book clubs, and that is where the deeper level discussions and good reader responses come from.  These tests are just one final validation at the end, as a way to verify they read it.  It also helps for kids who don't read a book in a book club, and just took it home and read it on their own, so I can have a quick check that they at least read it to completion. I use many of the resources on the TLA website for tracking, since they are so generous to offer both student and teacher resources to help with that. I just wanted a little extra accountability, which is why I made these tests.

The greatest success I had in having students read Bluebonnet books was a student who told me "Some of these books I wouldn't have chosen on my own, but because they were a Bluebonnet book, I had too. Then I ended up really liking some!"

My favorite review from a previous package list:

"I love that there are two versions of each accountability test. I am an elementary librarian, so I work with a lot of kids. This will be a quick way to verify each student has actually read the books and to keep track of how many titles each student has read. I plan to use them in the library as an ongoing challenge/project with my students as well as in collaboration with classroom teachers. Added bonus: I am still working on reading through the list, and the school year is fast approaching. The little quizzes are also an easy way for me to be able to talk about the books with the kids, even if I haven't finished them yet."

TITLES INCLUDED:

Act by Kayla Miller

Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows

Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling

Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros

The Elephant's Girl by Celesta Rimington

Follow Those Zebras by Sandra Markle

A Hatful of Dragons by Vikram Madan

Honeybee, The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming

The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter by Aaron Reynolds

Lexi Magill and the Teleportation Tournament by Kim Long

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

Our Friend Hedgehog by Lauren Castillo

Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidickier

The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta

Sharuko, Julio C. Tello by Monica Brown

Someplace to Call Home by Sandra Dallas

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson

Words on Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen