Do you do a Community Helpers theme in your classroom? This Community Helpers Pack not only meets social studies learning standards, but literacy standards too! Here’s 6 Reasons This Community Helpers Pack is the Best.
6 Reasons This Preschool Community Helpers Pack is the Best
1. This Community Helpers Unit Is Easy to Use
Every printable in this pack is ready to print and go.
No prep necessary unless you choose to laminate the posters!
2. This Community Helpers Unit Meets Learning Standards
I’ve purchased curricula from companies in the past and they just never meet the standards the right way or are way over my kids’ heads.
But these printables are all made to meet PA Early Learning Standards and the Common Core.
3. This Community Helpers Unit is Easy to Understand
The text on these posters and worksheets are simple enough for beginning learners to read and understand.
So if you teach preschool preschool, you can read the content on these posters to your class and it’s just the right balance of informative and fun to keep them focused.
And in the other grades, students can read the text independently and you can test their comprehension with the worksheets. Perfect for everyone!
4. This Community Helpers Unit is Developmentally Appropriate
I teach preschool. Preschoolers don’t sit still and focus on anything for too long!
But these Community Helpers Posters are just long enough to get the information across, and short enough to keep children’s focus.
5. This Community Helpers Unit is Relevant
The community helpers in this pack are common. Students will be able to build deeper understandings of each helper by building upon their experiences of seeing or interacting with these helpers in real life.
6. This Community Helpers Unit is Versatile
There are so many different kinds of printables in this pack that you’ll be able to use it many ways and for many days!
This pack includes posters, worksheets, discussion questions and writing prompts that all meet learning standards.
Plus, the coloring pages, create a book, and cards for your writing center really give an assortment of activities that you can use with your class to keep the lesson playful.
Look Inside This Community Helpers Pack
Reading Posters
This learning bundle features 12 common community helpers.
One file is colored posters with an image of one community helper in uniform, and a paragraph introducing the character.
The text on the page describe’s the helper’s work, uniform, and training. The text on these pages is simple enough for beginning readers to read independently.
Click on a poster to make it larger.
The reading posters also come in black and white, just in case you don’t want to use up all your colored ink. Or, you can read about how I saved $224 last year AND use colored ink!
Plus, these posters also make great coloring pages for students. 🙂
You can even laminate these reading posters and keep them in your classroom library like we do.
Discussion Questions
In addition, each community helper poster has coordinating discussion questions for you to go over as a group.
Some questions come from the text and test comprehension; some questions ask students to think more deeply and form opinions.
Click on a worksheet below to see it larger.
Comprehension Worksheets
Each community helper has a worksheet for your to use to test your students’ comprehension. Use these worksheets as a class review, homework, or optional seat work.
Writing Response Worksheets
Each community helper page also has a coordinating reflective writing worksheet.
The worksheet has the beginning of a sentence (a writing prompt) and plenty of space for students to finish with their own words. Space is also included for students to illustrate their sentence.
Word Wall Words
This bundle also includes word wall words.
These wall words feature a picture of the community helper, as well as their written name.
Two versions of wall words are included. One version prints 6 to a sheet.
The other version fits 3 to a sheet and the helper’s name is written on print lines. These would be great to laminate and include in your writing center for tracing or reference!
Community Helpers Book
The same text from the posters is used in this half page create-a-book.
Your students will love coloring, binding, and reading their very own book about community helpers!
Standards
Most importantly, this bundle covers a multitude of ELA standards! Check it out!
Download Your Bundle!
Community Helpers Unit for Preschool and Kindergarten
$7.50
This informational text pack features 12 community helpers. The included resources describe their occupations in easy to read text perfect for early readers! In this pack you’ll find informational posters, corresponding discussion questions, comprehension worksheets, writing response worksheets, word wall words, and a take home book.
You can use this pack throughout the year by featuring a community helper every month, or you can use it during a specific community helper theme. We keep our reading posters in our library area year-round.
Description
The job description posters feature text appropriate for group or independent reading, depending on the abilities of the students in your group.
Each poster includes a single paragraph describing various details of the community helper’s occupation, such as responsibilities, uniforms, and location. The black and white version can be used for coloring pages.
The comprehension worksheets, discussion questions, and writing prompts are based directly off of the text. I laminated these posters and leave them in my classroom library year-round.
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This pack contains:
? 12 full color Job Description Posters/Readers
? 12 Black and White Job Description Readers/Coloring Pages
? 12 Community Helpers Reading Comprehension Worksheets
? 12 Community Helper Discussion Question Pages
? 12 Community Helper Writing Response Worksheets
? 12 Large Word Wall Words with Print Lines
? 12 Large Black and White Word Wall Words with Print Lines
? 12 Small Word Wall Words
? 12 Small Black and White Word Wall Words
? 12 Half-Page Community Helper Reading Pages and 1 Cover
? Related Standards
Featured Community Helpers:
Chef, crossing guard, detective, doctor, fire fighter, mail man, mechanic, nurse, police officer, teacher, trash collector, vet
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