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The document titled 'Trucking' by Ellen Forrest provides an overview of various types of trucks and their specific jobs, supported by labeled photographs. It emphasizes the importance of trucks in performing essential tasks such as delivery, garbage collection, and emergency response. The text is designed for Grade 1 readers and aims to enhance their understanding of the role trucks play in everyday life.

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Raz Lf18 Trucking CLR

The document titled 'Trucking' by Ellen Forrest provides an overview of various types of trucks and their specific jobs, supported by labeled photographs. It emphasizes the importance of trucks in performing essential tasks such as delivery, garbage collection, and emergency response. The text is designed for Grade 1 readers and aims to enhance their understanding of the role trucks play in everyday life.

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Trucking

Written by Ellen Forrest

Informational Text • Informational

Grade 1 Word Count 168 Learning A–Z level F


Lexile 400L Multi-level N/A

Refer to the Focus Question on page 2 of this title to guide discussion and support additional learning connected
to the text.

Have you ever thought about the different kinds of trucks and what they do? Supported by photographs
with labels, Trucking gives students information about different types of trucks and the kinds of jobs
they do.

Photo Credits:
Front cover, title page, pages 8, 9, 10 (center): © Jupiterimages Corporation; pages 3, 4 (all), 5, 12 (all): © Hemera Technologies/Jupiterimages Corporation; page 6: © iStockphoto.com/Simon Moran; page 7: © iStockphoto.com/Lya
Cattel; page 10 (left, right): Craig Frederick/© Learning A-Z; page 11: © iStockphoto.com/Darryl Peroni

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Focus Question
What kinds of jobs do
trucks do, and why are
trucks important?
Written by Ellen Forrest
Trucking
Cement-mixer truck

Different kinds of trucks do different kinds of jobs.


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Trucks are all around.

Street-cleaning truck
Crane-lift tractor-trailer

Fire truck
Bug-spray pickup truck

Pickup trucks are one kind of truck.


They have an open place in the back.
Their job is to carry things
from place to place.
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They pull other cars and trucks.
They do a special job.
Tow trucks are another kind of truck.

Tow truck
Delivery truck

Delivery trucks also are a kind of truck.


They have a closed place in the back.
Their job is to carry many things
from place to place.
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They can carry big things.
They have a flat place in the back.
Flatbed trucks have a job, too.

Flatbed logging truck with trailer


Front-arm garbage truck Garbage truck at the dump Side-arm garbage truck
Garbage trucks are
another kind of truck.
Their job is to pick up trash.
Garbage trucks carry trash.
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They carry firefighters to fires.
Fire trucks are a special kind of truck.
Fire truck
Flatbed
logging
truck
Box truck
Ambulance
All kinds of trucks are important.
They help us do jobs.
They help us to get work done.
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It dumps the rocks in another place.
It carries heavy rocks.
This dump truck has a special job, too.
Dump truck

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