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Children will examine various jobs firefighters do and identify which tools help them with each situation.
Vocabulary: firefighters, smoke, turnout gear
Social Studies Focus: firefighters, community workers
Watch a Video: Firefighers Suit Up
Read the Issue:
Hero Gear!
Play a Game: Firehouse Search and Find
Skill: vocabulary
Complete Skill Sheets
Reading Checkpoint
Skill: key details
Text Feature Hunt
Skill: nonfiction text features
Find the MIssing Sounds
Skill: phonics
Lesson Boosters
Paired Text Suggestion: No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons)
by Jean E. Pendziwol
Phonics Focus: i_e Makes the Long i Sound
Hands-on Activity: Fire Safety Scavenger Hunt
CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RL.1.1 key details; RF.1.2 vowel sounds; RF.1.3 decode words; RI.1.5 text features; RI.1.10 read first-grade texts; SL.1.2 ask and answer questions
Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.
Skills: fire safety
Materials: Fire Safety Scavenger Hunt sheets, clipboards, pencils