Use this activity to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.

“Mastering the Influence of Words”

In this activity, students will create an advertisement of a place, belief, or item they feel strongly about in terms of its benefit and worth to others.

In Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte draws on the powerful Influence of Words to convince the humans that Wilbur is a special pig, thereby saving his life. In this activity, you, too, will use words as a tool to convince others of a belief, item, or place you feel strongly about—one you believe would benefit others to try.

• Begin by considering a place, item, or belief that is important to you. What do you love, admire, or cherish? What types of places, things, products, or ideas benefit you and might benefit others? Decide on one to promote so that others might try it for themselves.
• Next, brainstorm some words or phrases that best describe this item/person/place and why others should care about it/them.
• Create a slogan out of the words you came up with. For example, to describe a love of bananas, a person may choose words like “yellow,” “delicious,” or “unique.