Tiny Libraries with Big Stories

The author wrote this selection mainly to —

• provide information about where to find a Little Free Library

• explain why people enjoy reading books outdoors

• persuade the reader to visit a Little Free Library

• tell the reader about an interesting way to share books

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CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

Read this sentence from paragraph 4.

With these ideas in mind, Bol and Brooks came up with a plan to build more than 2,500 Little Free Libraries around the world.

Based on information in the selection, how do Brooks and Bol most likely feel about the results of their plan?

• Disappointed

• Curious

• Delighted

• Confused

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

What is the best summary of the selection?

• A man made a little box and filled it with books for people to borrow. The box was shaped like a red schoolhouse. The man’s friends and neighbors loved the little library and soon wanted to have tiny libraries of their own.

• A man built a box in his yard and filled it with books. His neighbors liked the little library, so the man and his friend decided to help get little libraries started everywhere. Today many people enjoy getting books and meeting new friends at the little libraries.

• A man thought of an idea to make a tiny library. Books are placed in a box and then put in a front yard. People do not need library cards and can just take the books for free anytime they want. They can return them whenever they are finished.

• A man and his friend decided to try to get people around the world to build little libraries. They created a website to teach people how. Their goal was to build more libraries than Andrew Carnegie.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

The photograph and caption above paragraph 8 are included in the selection to show —

• why some of the libraries become more popular than others

• how library owners must refill their libraries every day

• what steps people use to check books out of the libraries

• how the libraries help people share and enjoy books

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Read this dictionary entry for the word drive.

drive verb 1. to take to another place by car 2. to guide the movement of 3. to force to go through 4. to throw hard or fast

Which definition most closely fits the way the word drives is used in paragraph 1?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Read the diagram.

Cause: ???? >>>>Effect: Bol builds the first Little Free Library

• Bol wants to honor his mother.

• Bol thinks his friends do not have enough books

• Bol wants people to learn to share with others.

• Bol notices that libraries make people want to read

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3