I wanted to do my own unit on Community Helpers after last year, cause I wanted more condensed information to share with my kids. I also wanted to incorporate some non-fiction, similar to my animal units, so I came up with this huge packet full of activities to work on speech & language skills!
This has activities to target tons of goals! I targeted 9 people in the community: Police Officers, Firefighter, Veterinarian, Doctor, Teacher, Lawyer, Accountant, Chef, and Farmer. Here’s what’s included:
- 9 Occupation Vocabulary Cards
- 9 Occupation Location Vocabulary Cards
- 9 Nonfiction passage for each worker, all about that job
- Comprehension questions for each passage
- Tier 2 vocabulary word cards and definitions from each passage
- A graphic organizer for the vocabulary cards
- Describing graphic organizers for each person
- Open ended worksheet for each person that you can use to target anything…articulation, vocabulary, parts of speech, etc!
- Mini-book that students can label and color
- Writing and drawing page
- Writing prompt
- KWL chart you can use with the passages
- Worksheet for discussing good speech in each career
- Roll and cover pages for each helper
WHEW! I had so much fun making this packet and I can’t wait to see how my kids like it. I have already used the firefighter roll and cover during fire safety, and they loved that!
You can find this unit in my TPT store
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My favorite Old Lady book is There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed Some Leaves!
Love this, so much to work on with the kiddos! My favorite Old Lady book is There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Bell!
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I enjoy the original. There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly!
I would be able to use this with all the kids on my caseload but it will be perfect to use with my PreK and PPCD kids! Looks awesome! Thanks so much for sharing and the giveaway opportunity! I would love to have this!
I would use this with all my kids even my PreK kids! Love it!
This will be a great update to what I have for community helpers! Awesome job. Would love to have!
This will be perfect for my community helpers unit which desperately needed updating!! I love how you include non-fiction texts…exactly what I need! Thank you!
There are so many great activities here! The non-fiction passages and comprehension questions look great! And I have so many students working on describing, so the graphic organizers will get so much use.
I have a ton of kiddos working on reading comprehension! This would also be great for describing, comparing, and contrasting–also a lot of goals I’m working on!
This would be so nice for my elementary language groups.
This would be great for my clients…I love the various goals you can target with this!
Simply amazing. I am in awe!
I would use this to for semantics, predicting, and describing, to name just a few.
I would use this with my language students to target vocabulary, wh- questions, and describing.
This is a great unit! I have been looking for a good community helpers unit for this year!
I would love this unit, especially for my lower functioning students! This has so many activities that I can do with almost all of my students!
I would love this packet, as I am set to start my community helpers theme this week! I would probably use it for all of my students, since the bulk of them are in K-2nd grade. 🙂
Right now I am looking for activities to use with a 4th grade Downs student, that I can introduce and then have paras support the activities throughout the day. This will be perfect. And- it will be a great addition to my K groups!
This looks great! I love the tier 2 vocab cards!
I like to do a community helpers week in September. This is perfect! The materials here are broad enough to target a variety of goals and objectives. Thank you!
I love this for my younger kids, PK and K!
This would be great for working on “Who” questions with one of my students!
The variety of activities makes this packet useful for both primary and intermediate students. Community helpers is one of the units that our younger students completes, and this would give the older students wonderful opportunities to develop their narrative writing!
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Wow! What a great, comprehensive unit!
This would be a great addition to my room. I don’t have any community helpers activities right now so this would be a great start!
This is perfect for our upcoming Imagine It unit. I work in a Walk to Read model with our first graders where I get to introduce/review the vocabulary for the unit. The graphics will be engaging for my little friends! Super packet! Crossing my fingers for this one!!
I love the comprehensiveness and open-endedness of this packet! Would be great for my preschool kiddos who need a little extra encouragement to practice their targets 🙂