What Does a Police Officer 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 police officers 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: badge, crash, dog, laws, safe, station, traffic and uniform. The passage tells how officers direct traffic, help find a lost child's family and visit schools. 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 police officers. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Police officers drive a police car or walk around the neighborhood to watch for trouble. They help lost children find their families, direct traffic when the lights stop working and keep people safe after a car crash.

Call 911 only when there is a real emergency. A police officer or another helper will come.

A neighborhood is a part of a town where people live near each other. Police officers watch over neighborhoods every day.