What a Park Ranger Does All Day, Read and Answer

Before each page, ask your child where they have seen that helper in your town. After reading, check the answers with the key and talk about which helper they might like to be.

Read how a park ranger's wide hat keeps off the sun and how rangers help lost hikers with maps. A park ranger is a person who takes care of a park and its visitors. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Circle the letter of the best answer for questions 1 to 3, and write the answers to questions 4 and 5 on the lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

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 local helpers. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A community helper is a person whose job helps the people in a town. The sheets cover a mail carrier, a doctor, a dentist, a vet, a librarian, a lifeguard, a crossing guard, sanitation workers, farmers, a baker, construction workers, a school bus driver, a park ranger, plumbers, electricians, nurses and pharmacists.

You write the address and add a stamp, then drop the letter in a blue mailbox. A mail carrier takes it to the post office, where machines and workers sort the mail by address. Then a mail carrier brings it to the right house.

A nurse cares for sick people in a hospital or a doctor's office and may use a thermometer or a stethoscope. A pharmacist works in a pharmacy, counts pills on a counting tray and explains how to take the medicine safely. Both help sick people get better.

17 of the 18 local helpers sheets have an answer key. The older matching page does not.