Level 1 • Lesson 75 — Read Around the World passport

Objective

Make a simple reading passport and use it to track stories that happen in different places, like city, farm, forest, or other countries.

Materials

Small booklet (folded paper) to be the “passport”
Pencil ✏️, crayons, or markers
Several storybooks with clear settings (city, forest, ocean, another country, etc.)
World map or globe (optional) to point to places

Mini-lesson — Stories take us places

Every story has a setting. The setting is where, and sometimes when, the story happens.

Stories can happen:

in a busy city or quiet town
on a farm or in a forest
by the ocean, in the snow, or in another country

Today we will make a reading passport. Each time we read a story with a clear place, we add it to our passport like a little “stamp”.

We can say:

“This story happens in ___.”
“My passport stamp says I read a book set in ___.”

Our reading passport helps us see how stories can take us all around the world.

Picture strip: A small “Read Around the World” passport

Guided Practice — Mini-book: Reading passport

How to use this mini-book:

Fold paper into a small “passport”.
Read one short story together.
Use each page to fill in one passport page for that book.

You can point to a map or globe as you talk, but the focus is on noticing the story’s place.

Passport words

passport place city forest country stamp

Frames: “This story happens in ___.” “My passport stamp says I read a book set in ___."

Mini-Book: Read Around the World passport

1

Make your passport

Fold paper into a small booklet. Write your name on the front as the reader.

What will you draw on the cover?

2

One page for each book

Inside, each page is for one book. You will add the title and the place.

How many pages do you have?

3

Write the title

At the top, write the book title. This tells which story you “visited”.

What is the title of your first book?

4

Find the place

Think about where the story happens. Is it a city, forest, farm, or somewhere else?

Where does this story happen?

5

Add a stamp or picture

Draw a small stamp or flag picture to show the place. Keep it simple and clear.

What stamp will you draw?

6

Look back at your travels

After you log several books, look back. You have “visited” many places through reading.

Which place was your favorite to read about?

Project Practice — Using your reading passport

Read each sentence about the reading passport. Choose the best answer. Then press “Check answers”.

1) What is a reading passport in this project?

2) What is the setting of a story?

3) What two things do you write for each book in your passport?

4) Which is an example of a place a story might happen?

5) Why do you draw a small stamp picture on each page?

6) After many books, what can your passport show you?

7) Which sentence sounds like a reading passport entry?

8) Who could you show your reading passport to?

Quick Check (10 questions)

1) The main job of your reading passport is to…

hold your crayons keep track of books and where they happen show how fast you can run

2) The setting of a story is…

the snack you eat while reading the color of the book cover the place or places where the story happens

3) If a story happens in a forest, your passport might say…

“Place: forest” “Place: pizza” “Place: number three”

4) When you add a book to your passport, you should…

guess a random place think about clues in the text and pictures only write your favorite color

5) Drawing a small “stamp” picture…

makes the passport too messy is not allowed is a fun way to show the place quickly

6) If you are not sure of the place, you can…

reread and look carefully at the pictures write anything you want leave every box empty

7) Which sentence sounds like you are using your passport well?

“I wrote random words.” “I wrote the title and that it happens at the beach.” “I forgot every book.”

8) A reading passport can help you…

forget what you read only remember your shoes remember books and the different places they showed you

9) If many of your books are set on farms, you might learn…

that you like farm stories that you never read about farms that you do not like reading at all

10) To get better at using a reading passport, you can…

never write in it add a new entry each time you finish a story only fill in the first page and stop

Assessment (parent/teacher)

Helped create a simple “passport” booklet Can say that the setting is where a story happens Can record at least one book title and place in the passport Can name one or two different types of places (city, forest, farm, etc.) Can talk about a favorite story place they “visited” in reading

Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can use my reading passport to track story places 🙂 I need more practice using my reading passport 😅 Story places still feel tricky

I will practice…

Noticing where a story happens Writing titles and places in my passport Sharing my passport with someone at home

Lesson 75: Read Around the World passport