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When the Alarm Rings

Kindergarten read-aloud text about a school fire drill. Children tell how each step connects to what happens next and why it keeps us safe.

KindergartenELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.K.3

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 8 questions
  • Classroom-ready

Details

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students describe how events in an informational text are connected.
  • Students tell what we do because of each step in a fire drill.
  • Students explain how the alarm and what the class does are connected.

How to use

Read the text aloud twice and pause after each step. Read each question aloud; students copy words from the word banks, match each event to what comes with it and tell a partner how the alarm and the class are connected.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.K.3

With prompting and support, describe how two people, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text are connected.

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When the Alarm Rings

Listen and tell how the steps of a fire drill are connected.

Listen to the text

Your teacher reads the text. Listen for what happens when the alarm rings.

When the Alarm Rings

A fire drill is practice. It helps us know what to do if there is a real fire.

When the alarm rings, we stop what we are doing. We line up at the door.

We walk outside. We do not run, so no one falls.

We go to a safe spot. Our teacher counts us. Now the teacher knows everyone is there. When the drill is over, we go back to class.

What do we do?

Your teacher reads each question. Circle the answer, or use the word bank to write the missing word.

1.
What is a fire drill?
  • A. a real fire at school
  • B. a ride on a fire truck
  • C. practice for a fire
2.
What do we do when the alarm rings? Write the word.
Word bank: door · stop · sleep

When the alarm rings, we   what we are doing.

3.
Why do we walk and not run? Write the word.
Word bank: safe · door · falls

We do not run, so no one  .

4.
What happens when the teacher counts us? Write the word.
Word bank: knows · sings · runs

Our teacher counts us. Now the teacher   everyone is there.

How are they connected?

Your teacher reads each question. Think about what happens and why.

5.
Match each part to what goes with it.
  1. The alarm rings.
  2. The drill is over.
  3. We practice fire drills.
  1. A. We go back to class.
  2. B. We know what to do in a real fire.
  3. C. We line up at the door.
6.
In a fire drill, what happens first?
  • A. Our teacher counts us.
  • B. The alarm rings.
  • C. We go to a safe spot.
7.
Where do we go after we walk outside?
  • A. to a safe spot
  • B. back to our seats
  • C. to the lunch line
8.
Tell a partner how the alarm and what we do are connected.

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