Reading: The Little Free Library
Borrowing, lending and sharing
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📚 The Little Free Library
Read about small wooden boxes of books that neighbors share with each other.
💡 How to use this lesson
For Teachers:
Give learners 12 minutes to read the short text and answer the 8 questions.
Check answers together using the exact words and sentence clues from the passage.
For Learners:
First, read the short passage carefully and check the words in the word box.
Next, answer the 8 questions below from number 1 to number 8.
The Little Free Library
Do you see a small box with books on a post in your neighborhood? This is a Little Free Library. It is a place where people share books. You take a book and leave a book. In 2009, Todd Bol from Wisconsin built the first one. It looked like a tiny schoolhouse. He built it for his mother, a teacher who loved reading. He filled it with books in his yard. Todd got the idea from shelves in coffee shops. In 2012, there were 4,000 libraries. By 2025, over 200,000 libraries exist in 128 countries.
📖 Word Bank (Helpful Words)
Questions (1 to 8)
Answer each question using the information from the passage.
Todd Bol built the first Little Free Library for his mother.
Todd Bol put the first book box inside a coffee shop.
What did the first Little Free Library look like?
Where did Todd get the idea to share books?
Match each year with the correct event from the text:
Choose one event for each year.
Match the beginning of each sentence with its correct ending:
Choose the ending that completes the idea from the text.
What was the job of Todd Bol's mother?
How many countries have Little Free Libraries by 2025?
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