This is the story of how 12-year-old Jonathan protects his younger sister, Abby, during an earthquake.  Jonathan, Abby, and their dog, Moose, are left on a deserted island while their father takes their mother to the hospital.  In seeking protection for himself and Abby, Jonathan recalls what he learned from annual earthquake drills at school. (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.