About This Lesson
This lesson serves as an introduction to a community helpers unit. The CCSS-featured nonfiction text Fire! Fire! which portrays firefighters responding to and fighting fires in a city, country town, forest, and on the waterfront provides a natural segue into further study of communities and helpers, citizenship, volunteering, and jobs. Included are elements of complex informational text, vocabulary, close reading, image labels and interpretation, text-dependent questions, companion texts, and cross-curricular activities. These elements relay foundational social studies content; weave in fire safety, science, civics, economics, and more; and meet many K–1 ELA CCSS.
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