Guided Reading (Guided Read Alouds) with Highlighters



Guided Highlighted Reading for Common Core Text

My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World

By Margriet Ruurs

Target Audience-Grade 4-5

Guided highlighted reading:

The goals for this activity are to prepare for reading a selection, build silent reading fluency, to determine what is important in a paragraph, to make inferences, and to read with a larger context in mind.

The teacher reads the following:

Guided highlighted Read for Question #1

Paragraph #1

• Highlight the country where children can receive books in innovative ways. Answer: Peru

Paragraph #2

• Highlight how families in Lima receive books. Answser: Bags

• Highlight how long families in Lima keep their 20 books. Answer: 1 month

Paragraph #3

• Highlight 2 ways that books are delivered to rural communities in Peru? Answer: wooden suitcases and plastic bags

• Highlight where people gather to check out books. Answer: Outside in the plaza

• Highlight the region where books are delivered by donkey cart. Answer: coastal

Paragraph #4

• Highlight the program in Cajamarca responsible for lending books to children and adults. Answer: Aspaderuc

Paragraph #5

• Highlight another ways that books are brought to rural schools in Peru. Answer: by wagon

• Highlight the adjective that describes the type of reader children are becoming by reading the books they are receiving. Answer: avid

Miscellaneous Resources:

Visual Images:

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Background Knowledge

(The overview given by the teacher prior to reading.)

Anticipation Guide:

Option #1 Book Talk

When you go to the library, what does it look like?  Is it a building with lots of shelves of books?  Are there lots of people there?  Well, not every community is lucky enough to have a library like that.  But that doesn't mean that the people don't want a library.  They just have other ways to get their books.  Like the children in the remote areas of Australia who visit their library on a truck.  Or the boat library in Finland.  And yes, even the camels who deliver books to the children of Kenya.

Option #2 Visual Images

After viewing the images, discuss the following:

o How do you get books from the library here in the USA?

o How often do you visit the library?

o How does the library system work?

Summary: The text excerpt below is taken from Margriet Ruurs book, My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Bought to Children Around the World. This piece includes geographic information about the country of Peru and how books are being brought to children in rural areas.

Genre: Non-Fiction

How the Text is Written:

1. Descriptive-Details explaining how Peru’s small rural communities are receiving books

2. Compare & Contrast-how books in the US are received vs. Peru, how various cities within Peru have different ways of receiving books

3. Cause & Effect-How geographical region effects book distribution.

4. *Chronological (if you have access to Margriet Ruur’s book, My Librarian is a Camel: How Books Are Books Are Brought to Children Around the World.- Examine how book arranges countries in abc order. i.e. From Australia to Zimbabwe

Vocabulary: Show a map of Peru and together, locate and discuss the following:

1. Peru (discuss continent of S. America)

2. Lima

3. Cajamarca

4. Coastal regions

Other Key Vocab (discuss & have students annotate):

Institution, plaza, avid, rural, system

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