Donovan asks his grandmother for advice as to what he should do with his collection of words in a jar, and she shows Donovan how he can share his word jar. The senior tenants begin to take the words and apply them to each other, causing great laughter and friendship among the normally grumpy tenants. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trophies, 2005)

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.