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About This Passage
This is the sunrise Charlotte promised Wilbur at the end of Chapter 18, arrived exactly on schedule. Three vocabulary words live inside the sentence — MORNING, COWS, and ROOSTER — so copying it lets a young reader feel each piece of the dawn Charlotte described.
Next morning when the first light came into the sky and the sparrows stirred in the trees, when the cows rattled their chains and the rooster crowed and the early automobiles went whispering along the...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 19 in your own words. Start with Wilbur waking up. Tell about the egg sac, the bad news from Templeton, the buttermilk bath, and the voice on the loud speaker asking for Wilbur.
Discussion Questions
- Charlotte called her egg sac her magnum opus — her great work. How do you know from the story that Charlotte is proud of the sac she made?
- Templeton came back very full and told Wilbur, 'Nobody is going to hang any medal on you.' What in the story makes you think Templeton does not feel what a good friend should feel for Wilbur?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
The early part of the day, from sunrise until about noon.
Item 2
Large farm animals kept for milk and meat.
Item 3
A grown-up male chicken that crows to greet the morning.
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