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

What would your life look like without books?

Essential Question(s):

Lesson Objective:
Enduring
Understandings:

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

To show students the different ways children around the
world access books.
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.
(AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner)

Standard(s):
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.2.9
Compare and contrast the most important points presented by
two texts on the same topic.
ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.2
Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud
or information presented orally or through other media.

Content Area(s):

Resources:

ELA & Social Studies

Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown
Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypts Treasured Books
by Susan Roth
That Book Woman by Heather Hensen
The 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 Ruurs
Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile by Gloria Houston

Waiting for the Biblioburro video

International Childrens Digital Library
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Hands Around the Library (about the Egypts Project)

Vocabulary:

Activity Overview:

Libraries Around the World PPT w/ photographs of

libraries around the world. **Google Slides PPT
Waiting for the Biblioburro has 10 Spanish words.
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 were
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 Anas 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! Were 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 dont have to know for sure-you
can be like Ana and make up a story. Be sure to
read the countrys 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

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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 dont have to wait for a donkey, camel, or
boat to deliver them to you.

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 Childrens 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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