Title of Lesson: A World of Readers: Libraries around the World

Essential Question(s):What would your life look like without books?

What do libraries look like in other parts of the world?

Lesson Objective:To show students the different ways children around the world access books.

Enduring Understandings:

Students will understand that access to books is different in other countries.Students will understand that geography is related to how children get books to read. Students will understand that libraries exist in countries all around the world.

Standard(s):(AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner)

1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.

2.3.2 Consider diverse and global perspectives in drawing conclusions.

(Common Core State Standards)

ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.9Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.2Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Content Area(s): ELA & Social Studies

Resources:Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica BrownHands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books by Susan RothThat Book Woman by Heather HensenThe Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books are Brought to Children Around the World by Margriet RuursMiss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile by Gloria Houston

“Waiting for the Biblioburro” video

International Children’s Digital Library

Hands Around the Library (about the Egypt’s Project)

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Libraries Around the World PPT w/ photographs of libraries around the world. **Google Slides PPT

Vocabulary: Waiting for the Biblioburro has 10 Spanish words.

Activity Overview:

Introduction: Announce National Library Week and lead a brief class discussion on libraries. Possible discussion questions/dialogue: “When you go to the library, what does it look like? Is it a building with rows and rows of books? Are there lots of people there? Can you go almost every day if you want? Well, not all children are as fortunate as we are. But that doesn't mean that people in places all over the world don't want a library. Many of them have other ways to get their books. Today we’re going to read a book about one of my heroes and learn how the children in Colombia access (perhaps use the phrase “check out”) books.

Procedure: 1. Read aloud Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown. 2. Ask students: What things about Ana’s life are different from

your life? How are your lives the same?3. “Guess What?! Waiting for the Biblioburro is based off a true

story! We’re going to watch a short video about the librarian Luis and his Biblioburros.”

4. Show a short video clip of Luis and his traveling library. 5. After the video ask, “Did you see how excited the Colombian

children were to receive new books?!” 6. Put students in pairs and spread them out around the story

time area. 7. Pass out pictures of libraries around the world. Instruct

students to look at their picture and decide what might be happening in the picture. (Inferring) “You don’t have to know for sure-you can be like Ana and make up a story. Be sure to read the country’s name on the back. {TECHNOLOGY OPTION} Save the pictures onto the laptops or ipads. Instruct students to post the pictures and their inferences on a Padlet.

8. In pairs, students will present their picture and describe their library to the rest of the class.

9. As students present the pictures, locate the country on Google Maps.

*Curriculum Connection: PPE 2nd graders are about to begin learning about maps.

10. If you liked Waiting for the Biblioburro, here are a few more books about libraries. (See Resources)

11. “Alright everyone quietly look behind you. You have shelves and shelves of great books and stories waiting for you! You don’t have to wait for a donkey, camel, or boat to deliver them to you.”

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Extension Activities:

Students will illustrate the cover of one of his/her favorite books to include in the “class bookmobile”.

1. Activate prior schema and briefly discuss Waiting for the Biblioburro. 2. Using the notebook cart, students will explore The International Children’s Book Database and read/listen to stories from countries all around the world. (http://en.childrenslibrary.org/)

Created and Submitted by: Emmie Stuart-Percy Priest Elementary

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