What Does a Paramedic Do? Reading Comprehension

Print the page and read the directions with your child: Read the passage. Then answer the questions. When they finish, check the work together with the answer key.

A short nonfiction passage about paramedics: how they get to people in an ambulance, how they stay calm and work fast, the tools they use and why they work day, night and weekends. Three multiple choice questions ask how paramedics get to people, when they work and what a paramedic does on the way to the hospital. Question 4 asks children to write why paramedics need to stay calm. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then answer the questions. 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 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.

24 of the 25 local helpers sheets have an answer key. The older matching page does not.