Sarah is nervous about starting a new school and shows it by trying to stay in bed and saying she’s too sick to go to school. The ending is a surprise when you find out that Sarah is the new teacher, and she is nervous about whether or not her class will like her and how she’ll fit in to her new school. (McGraw-Hill Treasures, 2009)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.