1. What does a Community of readers do?
Define the word community together as a class.

2. Enjoys listening
What does that look like and feel like?

3. Enjoys learning

4. Enjoys reading

5. Enjoys sharing their feelings

6. What can we learn from books?
Use this time to show the books Ice Cream the Full Scoop and Red Sings from the Treetops. We can learn information and new words from different types of books.
What can we learn from books?

7. We just need to learn how!
We are all born to read….
Show books Best Place to Read, and Born to Read. As teacher discuss how everyone is at different places in the reading process.
We just need to learn how!

8. Read the story Library Mouse
Read the story Library Mouse. Use this book to help students link the reading to their own lives.
Library Mouse

9. What Good Readers Do?
Have children come up to the board and fill in chart (listen carefully, learn new words and information, link what we read to own lives, share ideas and feelings)