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Fire Lookouts: Watching Over the Forest

Read an article about fire lookouts who watched forests for smoke, then ask and answer questions using details from the text.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions using details from an article.
Students find the sentence in a text that answers a question.
Students write their own question about an article and answer it with text details.

How to use

Have students read the article once for the big picture, then reread to answer. Remind them to point to the sentence that proves each answer before they mark it.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.3.1

Ask and answer questions to show understanding of an informational text, using the text itself as the basis for the answers.

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Fire Lookouts: Watching Over the Forest

Ask and answer questions using details from an article.

Read the article

Read the article carefully. You will look back at it to answer questions.

Fire Lookouts: Watching Over the Forest

1Imagine living in a tiny room at the top of a tall tower in the middle of a forest. For many people, this was a real summer job. These workers were called fire lookouts, and their job was to watch for smoke.

2Many lookout towers were built on mountaintops or high hills. From up there, a lookout could see for many miles in every direction. The small room at the top had windows all the way around, so the lookout could scan the whole forest.

3Lookouts were busiest in the hot, dry part of the year, when fires start easily. All day long, they checked the land with their eyes and with binoculars. If they spotted a thin line of smoke, they had to act fast.

4First, the lookout used a special tool with a map on it to find which direction the smoke was coming from. Then the lookout called firefighters by radio or telephone and told them where to go. Finding a fire while it was small made it much easier to put out.

5Living in a lookout was not always easy. Some lookouts had to carry water and food up steep trails. During thunderstorms, they stood on a stool with glass feet to help keep them safe from lightning.

6Today, cameras, airplanes, and even satellites also help spot fires. Still, some lookout towers have people in them every summer. Others have become places where visitors can stay the night and enjoy the view.

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