Book Summary
Firefighting is serious business. Readers learn about the many challenges firefighters face and the kinds of equipment they use to do their job. It's a challenging undertaking and a very important one. Firefighters work to keep people and property safe. Informative photographs support the text.

Book and lesson also available at Levels F and M.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand new information in a nonfiction text
• Identify main idea and details
• Blend phonemes
• Identify the long /a/ vowel sound
• Identify pronouns
• Alphabetize words

Materials

• Book -- Firefighters (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• KWL, main idea and details, pronouns worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting the book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: from, many, out, their, there, they
• Content words: axes, extinguishers, firefighters, helicopters, ladders, machines, pump, smoke