What do police and detectives do to keep their community safe? Six short-answer questions make up a instructional activity designed to reinforce reading comprehensions skills while providing information about police officers and detectives.  

Concepts

police, community helpers, responding to reading, informational texts, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, short answer questions

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite a police officer or detective to speak to the classroom about their profession 
• Direct learners to write a narrative in which they are a police officer or detective 
• Divide the class into homogeneous groups based on reading level; work with small groups in need of extra support and encourage marking the text

Classroom Considerations

• Requires copies—four pages, or two front-to-back 
• Preview the passage's reading level to confirm its appropriateness for your population 

Pros

• Presents information in a bullet point and narrative format
• Clear font makes for easy reading 

Cons

• Does not provide lines for learners to write question answers 

Common Core

RI.5.1 RI.5.2 RI.5.10