What Does a Firefighter Do? Cloze Reading

Print the page and read the directions with your child: Read the passage. Fill in each blank with a word from the word bank. When they finish, check the work together with the answer key.

A short passage about firefighters with headings on what they do, where they work, what they wear and how they teach us. It has 8 blanks, and the word bank holds 8 words: breathe, helmet, night, safe, smoke, station, truck and water. The passage ends with firefighters reminding families to test their smoke alarms. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Fill in each blank with a word from the word bank. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade Community Helpers, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with Firefighters. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

At the fire station, firefighters check the fire truck every day and clean the truck and the hoses. They practice with drills, exercise to stay strong and visit schools to teach fire safety. During a long shift they eat and sleep at the station.

First the alarm rings. Next the firefighters put on their gear, boots, a heavy coat and a fire helmet. Then they climb into the truck and buckle up. Last they drive to the call with the lights flashing and the siren on.

Yes. All 4 firefighters sheets have an answer key.