BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 2019 PROGRAMME

REPORT

Event   : Battle Of The Books 2019

Date    :  11 – 14 March 2019

Venue :  Mini Library JPA

From 11 until 14 March 2019, Battle of The Books 2019 was held by English Unit of General Studies Department. It was a programme that combined four different and yet entertaining reading activities. The objective was to encourage healthy reading habits among PIS students. Besides, this programme aimed to promote and foster appreciation for books and information in the same to encourage them to read together.

There were around 60 students from JRKV, JKM, JPH and JKE took part in this competition, where 15 students for respective activities. There were four different programme, namely:

NO	FACILITATOR’S NAME	DATE / DAY	TIME	THEME	DESCRIPTION
1.	Ainun Juhariah Bt Hussin	11 March 2019 Monday	3.00pm – 5.00pm	Thriller, Adventure	Reading Bingo Students will be given same reading materials. They will spend around 15 mins for the reading. Next, they are provided with a Bingo form that contains words definition. They need to write the words that match with the definitions and they should go for 5 in a  row to get Bingo.
2.	Siti Faezah Bt Ahmad Sazali	12 March 2019 Tuesday	3.00pm – 5.00pm	Contemporary and Classic	Jeopardize Students are given short stories to read in stipulated time. After they have read, they will be in group. They are going to draw pick random playing card from a box. Each student will draw one card and each card has different task. The students need to answer the questions based on the story that they have read. After they completed the task, they will be awarded with marks. Marks will be accumulated and the highest marks will be the winner.
3.	Ahmad Haffizu bin Abdullah	13 March 2019 Wednesday	3.00pm – 5.00pm	General	QR Library Scavenger Hunt Students need to take a QR scavenger hunt card and find books (Readers’ Digest) to match each item on the list. They have to read the books for a while in order to find clues. The books contain several QR code that correspond to the clue on the code sheet, they have to write the answer on the answers form. Once they finish all and get the correct answers, the group consider as the winner.
4.	Yeow Chee Kheong Siti Faezah Binti Ahmad Sazali	14 March 2019 Thursday	11.00am- 1.00pm	Science & Fiction	Post Reading Spinner Students will read the book. They are given 15 mins to read, then, everyone will take turn to spin the spinner and where it lands, they have to respond to the questions.

The students were very committed in carrying out the programme. Based form the feedback form given, overall, students enjoyed the programme and most of them agreed that they have improved in their reading skill.  Besides, they agreed that the activities done can possibly trigger the students interest to read more. Generally, the objective of the programme has met. However, some students did not attend to some activities due to having class at the same time. Certificates and food were given to every student individually at the end of the programme.

As a suggestion, the Person in Charge for registration should update the name of the participants in the Google form so that they aware the student’s attendance in future. Besides, more fun activities to enhance students’ reading skills should be implemented not only in certain programme, but also in the classroom.