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More Spaghetti, I Say

RDQ:	192	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	341		Diff Words	108
Lex	390	Ave Word/.Sent	4	Hi Freq occurs	209	61.3%	Hi freq	40	37%
AR	1.9	Long Sentences	1.4	Low Freq occurs	2	0.6%	Low freq	2	1.9%

"Play with me Minnie. 
Play with me please. 
We can stand on our heads. 
We can hang by our knees." 
"Oh no. I can't play. 
I can't play with you Freddy. 
Not now. Can't you see? 
I am eating spaghetti." 
"Now you can do it. 
Now you can play. 
We can jump on the bed 
for the rest of the day.""No. I can not. I can not jump and play. Can't you see? I need more. More spaghetti I say! I love it. I love it. I love it. I do. I love it so much!" "More that me?" "More than you. I love it on pancakes with ice cream and ham. With pickles and cookies bananas and jam. I love it with mustard and marshmellow stuff. I eat it all day. I just can't get enough. I eat it on trucks and I eat it in trees." "You eat it too much. Won't you play with me please?""I can run in spaghetti and ride in spaghetti. I can jump. I can slide. I can hide in spaghetti. I can skate on spaghetti and ski on spaghetti. And look at this picture. That's me on spaghetti." "Spaghetti. Spaghetti. That's all you can say. I am going to throw your spaghetti away. I am going to throw it all over the bed and in the air in you chair on the floor on your head. Oh Minnie that look on you face! You look bad. You look big. You look green. You look sick. You look sad." "You are right. I am green. I feel sick. Yes I do. I think I will rest. I will sit here with you." "Let me take this away now. I think that I should. And then we can play. MMMM! Spaghetti is good. I love it. I love it. I love it. I do. I need more spaghetti. I can't play with you." "But now I can play. I can play with you Freddy." "Not now. Can't you see? I am eating spaghetti!"]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Several repetitions of phrases or refrains

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Features

Rhyming

Unconventional punctuation

Unusual use of vocabulary

Topic

Feelings/Emotions

Cooking

Likes/Dislikes

Food

*Home Arts & Food

Pasta/Noodles

Low Frequency Words

marshmellow

mustard