Bookopoly: A Successful Teen Read Celebration

This year we are celebrating Teen Reading with a Bookopoly game, and it has been an exciting success with students.  We kicked off the game on day one of Teen Read week, and will continue to play until the day before vacation, allowing students to roll their dice once a day for opportunities to enter to win our grand prizes, or land on Community Chest for smaller immediate prizes.  

The draw is in part due to some wonderful prizes, among them a Chrome

book, but I believe the variety of ways to engage in the game has made it accessible to a wide range of students as well.  We have students at every grade level engaged in playing and exploring the library in new ways.

Below you will find an outline of the game design and rules.  

Game Board: Monopoly to Bookopoly translation

Property Spaces = Genres

*Sports

*Mystery

*Fantasy

*Science Fiction

*Adventure

*Teen Topics


Utilities = Game Time

Railroads = MakerSpace activities

Chance Cards = Cards that prompt literacy related activities

Community Chest = Pick from our mini prize trunk

Free Parking = Free Reading (enter your name to win)

Go to the Library = Enter your name to win

Feel free to use my Bookopoly cards as templates to design your own game pieces.

How to Play:

Roll our giant dice once a day, move your game piece (1" square character pieces with tacks) around the bulletin board/ game board

Collect "Genre cards"- collect three of any genre to enter for prizes or read one of the books reviewed    

        on a card and enter to win (students are allowed to trade genre cards)

Complete MakerSpace activities from the "MakerSpace cards" and enter to win

Complete literacy challenges within Chance cards and enter to win

Play Chess or another strategy game in the library  when collecting "Game Time cards" and enter to win

I am so excited by the engagement and active exploration of the library- it has been our best Teen Read celebration yet!