Richard moves to a new town and has to make new friends and face the challenge of climbing the rope in gym class. He makes a friend in James, and James helps Richard learn how to climb rope by using a rope that he has at his house, not only learning to climb the rope but also making a friend in the process.  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt StoryTown, 2008)

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.