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Ambulance Helpers

Kindergarten read-aloud text about an ambulance. Children ask and answer questions about new words like siren, paramedic and stretcher.

KindergartenELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.K.4

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8 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Kindergarten
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students answer questions about the meaning of new words in a read-aloud informational text.
Students use clues in a sentence to work out what a new word means.
Students ask a question about a word they do not know.

How to use

Read the text aloud two times and pause at siren, paramedic and stretcher. Read each question and its choices aloud, then help students circle, write and sort.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.K.4

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in an informational text.

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Ambulance Helpers

Listen to the text. Ask and answer questions about new words.

Listen to the text

Your teacher reads the text two times. Listen for new words.

Ambulance Helpers

An ambulance is a truck that helps sick or hurt people. It has a siren. A siren makes a loud sound: wee-oo, wee-oo! Cars move over to let the ambulance pass.

Paramedics ride in the ambulance. A paramedic is a helper who knows how to care for sick and hurt people.

The paramedics use a stretcher. A stretcher is a bed on wheels. They roll a sick person on the stretcher into the ambulance. They drive to the hospital.

What do the words mean?

Your teacher reads each question and the answers. Circle or write your answer.

Ava asks, "What is an ambulance?"

A. a bus that takes kids to school
B. a truck that helps sick people
C. a truck that carries big rocks

What does a siren do?

A. It makes a loud sound.
B. It makes the truck go.
C. It makes a bright light.

Which sentence tells what a paramedic is? Circle it.

Paramedics ride in the ambulance.An ambulance is a truck that helps sick or hurt people.A paramedic is a helper who knows how to care for sick and hurt people.They roll a sick person on the stretcher into the ambulance.

Kim asks, "What is a stretcher?" Write the missing word from the text.

A stretcher is a on wheels.