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About This Passage
This is a listening passage. It teaches young children that a good writer paints a place not by describing it but by letting the reader HEAR it — a woodpecker banging, birds chirping, squirrels chattering, a bullfrog drumming. Copying it trains the ear as much as the hand.
Rowdy and I hadn't been in the hole ten minutes when from somewhere in the bottoms an old woodpecker started banging away on a dead snag. This seemed to wake up everything in the bottoms. Birds starte...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of Chapter 7 in three or four sentences. Start with Jay Berry waking up early, and end with him walking home with his empty net.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Jay Berry was very scared when the big black snake looked down into the hole?
- What in the story tells you that the big monkey was smarter than Jay Berry first thought?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
a space dug down into the ground; an empty opening in something
Item 2
to stop sleeping and open your eyes
Item 3
a broken tree branch that sticks up
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