1. By: E.B. White Text Dependent Questions Chapters 4-6
Charlotte’s Web
By: E.B. White
Text Dependent Questions
Chapters 4-6

2. Chapter 4 - Key Ideas and Details
Use a Flow Map to sequence Wilbur’s plan for the day.
2. Describe Wilbur’s mood in Chapter 4. 
3. Why wasn’t Wilbur interested in eating?
4. How is Wilbur surprised at the end of the chapter? Use words and phrases from the text in your answer.
5.  What is the main point of Chapter 4?

3. Chapter 4 – Craft and Structure Questions
1. From what point of view is this chapter told?
2. On page 30, the author says, “Templeton was a crafty rat,” what does that mean?  How was Templeton crafty?
3.  Reread the paragraph on page 28 where Wilbur describes ‘nothing’.  Explain in your own words whether you think something is less than nothing

4. Chapter 1 – Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Compare and contrast how Wilbur feels in Chapters 3 and 4.
2. What caused Wilbur to feel the way he does? What is the effect of his feelings?
3. Use the illustration on page 31 to demonstrate understanding of this chapter

5. Chapter 4 – Vocabulary Review
 frolic
stealthily
cunning
dejected

6. Chapter 5 - Key Ideas and Details
Why didn’t Wilbur sleep well that night?
2. What did the voice say to Wilbur in his dream?
3. Describe the steps Charlotte takes before eating a meal.
4. What does Charlotte say to Wilbur about his meals?
5. On page 40, what is the goose thinking to herself?
6. What message does the author want us to learn from this chapter?

7. Chapter 5 – Craft and Structure Questions
1. On page 37, how does the author describe Charlotte physically? 2. How does the author describe Charlotte’s ‘miserable inheritance’? 3. What words does the author use to describe Charlotte on page 41?

8. Chapter 5 – Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Which sentence from the chapter best describes the illustration on page 38?
2. Compare and contrast Wilbur and Charlotte’s diet.
3. How do Wilbur’s feelings change from the beginning of Chapter 5 to the end of Chapter 5? 
4. What was the effect of Wilbur meeting Charlotte?

9. Chapter 5 – Vocabulary Review
Objectionable
detested
inheritance
innocent

10. Chapter 6 – Key Ideas and Details
What is the main idea of this chapter?
2. Describes the goose’s exciting news?
3. What was Templeton adding to his collection and why?

11. Chapter 6 – Craft and Structure
1. The author says that, “Everywhere you look is life.” What does that mean? Use words, phrases, and sentences from Chapter 6 to explain. 2. The author uses the word ‘untenable’ to _______. In the next couple of sentences the author explains the meaning of the word. What does ‘untenable’ mean?

12. Chapter 6 – Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
1. Use a Double Bubble to compare and contrast the things that Fern and Avery do in the summer with the things you do in the summer. Use words, phrases, and sentences from the chapter. 2. Turn back to page 30 to find the words that the author used to describe Templeton. Then read page 46. What additional words and phrases does the author use to describe Templeton? What can we infer about Templeton? 3. What do you think the other animals feel about Templeton? Explain why you think that.

13. Chapter 6 – Vocabulary Review
jubilee
gratified
morals
ancient