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Chosen because this passage shows how much Wilbur loves his friend Charlotte — he watches over the egg sac all winter and warms it with his own breath on cold nights. It holds three vocabulary words (winter, spiders, hatch) and gives a first or second grader a model of patient, caring love.
All winter Wilbur watched over Charlotte's egg sac as though he were guarding his own children. He had scooped out a special place in the manure for the sac, next to the board fence. On very cold nigh...
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Narration Prompt
Tell what happens in Chapter 22 in your own words. Talk about Wilbur coming home with the egg sac, the cold winter, the spring frogs, the tiny spiders hatching, the balloonists sailing away, and the three daughters — Joy, Aranea, and Nellie — who stay with Wilbur.
Discussion Questions
- Wilbur watches over Charlotte's egg sac all winter and on very cold nights he lies so that his breath will warm it. What in the story shows that Wilbur is taking good care of his friend's babies? How do you know he loves them before he has even met them?
- When Charlotte's baby spiders make tiny silk balloons and sail away on the warm wind, Wilbur cries himself to sleep. What makes you think Wilbur feels so sad? What was he hoping would happen instead?
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Item 1
A small round award that you wear around your neck for doing something wonderful.
Item 2
Small eight-legged creatures that spin silk webs. Charlotte's 514 babies are tiny spiders.
Item 3
The cold season when snow covers the ground and the trees lose their leaves.
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