Early readers learn why firefighters are heroes in our communities in this audio article featuring words like people, trees, and animals.

In “Firefighters Are Heroes” (grade 1) – a brief Listen and Read nonfiction story – students discover how firefighters work to keep people, trees, and animals safe from dangerous fires. This reading activity includes text, images, and audio, so students can read along while listening to a narrator.

At the end of the story, a Sound It Out section lets students listen to these vocabulary words a second time: people, trees, animals, and children.