Kick-off Fire Prevention Week with a Look at Firefighters

Get ready for Fire Safety Week with an introduction to all things fire-related! Start the week by looking into what firefighters do for the community and what they use to do their jobs. Then, end it with a fully structured, complete informational essay about what firefighters do, use, and need to do their jobs. This printable resource is the perfect way to blend fire safety and your writing curriculum standards without wasting any of that precious instructional time!

Expository Writing Scaffolds for 3rd-5th Grade

Use this teaching resource when teaching informative writing to your students or during Fire Prevention Week in October. To complete the activity, students will read the information in the fact file about firefighters.

Using the worksheet provided, students turn the bullet point notes from the fact file into complete sentences. Then, they will use the sentences to write an informative text about firefighters using the scaffold provided.

This resource is expertly designed to assist your students in building writing stamina and the ability to organize and write an informational essay. It is brought to you by the dedicated educators at Teach Starter, who are passionate about empowering teachers like you to effortlessly create captivating lessons.

Download, Print, and Teach! Informational Writing Prompt and Essay Structure

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