Teach Fire Safety with How-To Writing Prompts

Are you ready to teach your students about fire safety during Fire Prevention Week? Teaching fire safety is more than reminding students to stop, drop and roll; it’s about building life-saving skills that can be confidently applied in a fire emergency.

To help your students learn these skills, Teach Starter has created this set of four how-to writing prompts. These prompts will give your students the opportunity to practice their procedural writing skills while learning essential fire safety steps they can remember in an emergency situation.

These carefully crafted how-to writing prompts allow students to write how-to paragraphs about various aspects of fire safety. From escaping a burning building to explaining how to stay safe in the kitchen, each prompt guides them in sharing the steps needed to ensure everyone stays safe. The prompts included in this resource are:

• How to Stay Safe in the Kitchen
• How to Escape a Fire
• What to Do if There Is a Fire
• How to Prevent House Fires

This resource downloads as an easy-print PDF or editable Google Slides file.

Multiple Uses for These Procedural Writing Worksheets

These procedural writing worksheets have been designed by our team to be simple, adaptable and engaging. They can be used in a variety of ways to supplement your program during Fire Prevention Week. Here are a few ideas for you to consider:

• Fire Safety Handbook – Once the students have finished one of the procedural writing worksheets, compile them together to create a class book. This could be displayed in the classroom or the school library. You could even have copies made to be sent home to the students’ families.
• Fire Drill Procedure –After a school fire drill, have students demonstrate their knowledge of these procedures by using them as a stimulus for the “What to Do if There Is a Fire” how-to writing prompt. This helps them connect the writing task to a real fire safety experience.
• Fire Safety Role-Play – Link your students’ fire safety knowledge with drama by having them use their writing as a script for a short role-play, acting out the steps they described (e.g., “How to Escape a Fire”). This makes the writing come alive and reinforces information that could be applied in a real emergency.

Download to Access Your Fire Safety Sheet

Getting your hands on this fire safety sheet set is easy! Click on the Download button above to access your preferred version of these how-to writing prompts. Please note that you will be prompted to make a personal copy of the Google Slides file before accessing it.

You now have a resource for Fire Prevention Week that not only improves students’ writing but also equips them with practical knowledge they can use for life.

Resources to Complement These How-To Writing Prompts for Kindergarten

Looking for more resources to use alongside these how-to writing prompts for Kindergarten during Fire Prevention Week? Click below to browse more teacher-created, curriculum-aligned activities and worksheets.

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