The Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) is a statewide voluntary reading motivation and comprehension program for grades 3-12. Students form teams and read books from a pre-determined list and then compete with their teams to answer trivia questions about the content of the books.
Here are links to practice questions and other resources. If you know of any that are not on this list, please let us know! We want all teams to have the same practice resources. We will use the below resources to pull from for our recess practices. I will add links as they become available for the next year's competition.
Amazing OBOB quiz tool with thousands of practice questions! We will be using this tool at recess practices and for mock battles!
Cedar Mill Library Practice Questions - Scroll to bottom of page, they add sets periodically. These are by set with questions from all books.
Beaverton Library OBOB - Links to practice questions for all books by book.
Lake Oswego OBOB - Links to practice questions for all books by book.
Registration - October
Teams form - October/November
Initial OBOB meeting for students Nov 5th at lunch recess. Go over teams, reading assignments, overview of program. Kids continue or start reading the books.
Recess 2x weekly lunch recess practices starting in December. Kids have winter break to finish reading.
Lunch recess practices continue in January and 'pool play' battles start.
March 2027 - Final School wide Elimination Battle! Spectators Welcome!
OBOB is open to all 3rd / 4th / 5th grade students. Participating students get into teams of 4 (ideal) or 5 (okay), split up the 16 book reading list, and prepare to battle. The battles, which will take place in January and early February, consist of two teams competing against each other, answering questions about the books. Prior to the battles there will be twice weekly practice sessions at recess December and January.
(Sign-ups not available yet)
Glencoe Elementary OBOB Parent Volunteer Coordinator: Laura Mertens, emmerson.laura@gmail.com