Most "AI literacy" advice is written for generic edtech: prompt engineering, plagiarism detection, which vendor to buy. Very little of it is written for the people who spend the most hours of their day thinking about reading — parents helping a kid through a summer book, and teachers assigning a novel that half the class will meet a chatbot before they meet the text.
This primer is for them. It is not a trends piece and it is not a vendor pitch. It is a short, practical answer to one question: what does a reader need to understand about AI, and how do you teach it without ruining reading itself?
Strip away the hype and AI literacy for readers reduces to three habits.