Oak Street School Completes 'Battle of Books'

Students at the have completed the school's annual "Battle of the Books" competition, an elementary-level reading program that each year encourages fourth and fifth graders at the school to read books and then compete to show what they've learned.

The "Battle of the Books" is designed to encourage the students to expand their reading choices and to foster a lifelong love of reading. 

The competition is held among teams of five students, who between them have read all the titles on a pre-selected master list. During the battle, the students are asked knowledge-based questions about the books and earn points for their team for the correct answer. This year's competition was held in April.

The fourth grade winners were the "Rock n' Roll Readers," Lucy Hess, Emma Kunz, Lauren Lusardi and Gillian Wyman. Fifth grade winners were "The Literary Lunatics from the Library," Charlize Chen, Meredith Regner, Judy York, Rebecca Kilroy, and Nikita Prasad.

The competition is a great program that fosters reading, teamwork, competition, and fun, according to a parent from the Oak Street Parent Teacher Organization, AnnMarie Occhiogrosso, who provided information on the program.

The previous month, the Oak Street School PTO hosted the school's annual Family Reading Night.

were invited to share the love of reading during the long-running event.

In addition, this year there were volunteers from who also be read to families.  Dolce also generously donated cookies to be served throughout the night. Oak Street School moms Kristin Zebrowski and Stephanie Caesar co-chaired the event.