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About This Passage
This is a quiet, beautiful night-walk description. Copying it teaches young children to listen to the sounds of a sentence — 'dipped and darted,' 'dancing a flickering rhythm' — and to notice how a writer paints a whole scene with just light, motion, and sound.
It was one of those warm, full-moon nights when it's so bright it's more like twilight in the evening than nighttime. Thousands of lightning bugs were dancing a flickering rhythm all around us. Overhe...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of Chapter 6 in three or four sentences. Include Grandma's kitchen, Gandy the goose, and the hole Papa helped Jay Berry dig.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Jay Berry and Papa have become a team by the end of this chapter?
- Rowdy did not want to climb into the hole at first. What in the story tells you why Rowdy was so unsure?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
not hot, not cold — a gentle kind of heat you can feel on your skin
Item 2
the round, glowing object that shines in the sky at night
Item 3
the time between sunset and sunrise when the sky is dark
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Critical Thinking
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