Weekly Book Series: Fire Safety
This week is fire prevention week so stop, drop, and roll on over to check out our fire safety-themed book pick below!
Big Frank’s Fire Truck by Leslie McGuire
From the publisher:
Big Frank tells young readers all about firefighting and the many other important jobs firefighters do: fire safety training, fire inspection, helping at accident scenes, and more. It's all in a day's--and night's--work for our firefighting friend and his crew.
Frequent speech sounds in the book include:
initial “fr” (e.g., Frank)
final /g/ (e.g., big)
initial /f/ (e.g., fire)
final “ire” (e.g., fire)
Key language concepts in the book include:
Sequencing: order of events in Big Frank’s day
Vocabulary: accident, bunk, duty, fire inspection, paramedic training, partner, prepared, radio, schedule, shift
Grammar: adjectives, third person singular verbs, prepositional phrases, complex sentence structures
Text Features: labels, italics, exclamation points, dialogue
Predicting: make some guesses - what do you think will happen during each part of Big Frank’s day?
Inferencing: make some guesses - why do you think Big Frank does certain things throughout his day?
Character Analysis: Big Frank is a firefighter and drives the fire truck. He uses his training to keep others and their families safe and sound. What does it say about Big Frank, when it says “they go right to work?” How does Big Frank demonstrate perseverance?
Social/Emotional: facial expressions and body language
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