Sam Gribley has been living alone in the woods all summer, but fall has arrived and the fear of winter has forced Sam to think of new ways to survive on his own. Through his survival on his own he has befriended and tamed a falcon, named Frightful, and Sam analyzes other animal’s characteristics to help him figure out how he is going to survive. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Reading, 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.