1. In Scene 1, what trick does Chicken Big play on Chicken Little? What do you learn about Chicken Little from this opening scene?
Question 2
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2. In Scene 2, what inference, or conclusion, does Chicken Little draw? How do you know that he draws an incorrect conclusion?
Question 3
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3. What happens when Chicken Little tells the other birds that the sky is falling? Why do you think the other birds believe Chicken Little?
Question 4
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4. Reread Scenes 3 and 4. What is the tone, or feeling the author creates, in these scenes?
How does this tone compare with the way the birds are probably feeling?
Question 5
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5. In Scenes 5 and 6, what clues tell you that Foxy Loxy is planning to eat the birds?
What fact do you know about a fox’s natural diet that helps support this inference?
Question 6
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6. What two things happen in Scene 7 to finally convince Chicken Little that the sky
isn’t falling?