In this story, a young girl shares what it is like to spend time with her grandmother at her home and at her job at the crab chong where she cracks crabs. In spending time with her grandmother, the young girl is able to experience what her grandmother’s life is like. (McGraw-Hill Open Court, 2002)

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.