In this excerpt, Brady and his friends don’t demonstrate good judgment when they choose not to warn Mrs. DiAngelo early that morning. Feeling guilty, Brady becomes frustrated and anxious about having to search the small creeks rather than being with the adults.  After following the instincts of his dog, Brady finds Benjamin unconscious.  Despite his panic, Brady decides to focus his efforts on performing CPR on Benjamin. (Pearson Reading Street, 2010)

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.