In this tall tale, Davy Crockett lives in the woods where he combs his hair with a rake and shaves his beard with an ax, but Halley’s Comet is hurling towards Earth and the president is trying to stop it, and asks Davy Crockett to help. Davy climbs to the top of the Eagle Eye Peak and jumps on Halley’s Comet and rides it into the Atlantic Ocean, so the water puts the comet’s fire out and Davey hurls it into outer space, becoming an American hero. (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.