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A Kiss for Little Bear

RDQ:	148	Max Word/Sent	14	Total Words	302		Diff Words	96
Lex	190	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	183	60.6%	Hi freq	40	41.7%
AR	1.6	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	0	0%	Low freq	0	0%

A Kiss for Little Bear 
"This picture makes me happy" said Little Bear. 
"Hello Hen. This picture is for Grandmother. Will you take it to her, Hen?" 
"Yes I will" said Hen. 
Grandmother was happy. 
"This kiss is for little Bear" she said. "Will you take it to him Hen?" 
"I will be glad to" said Hen. 
Then Hen saw some friends. She stopped to chat. 
"Hello Frog. I have a kiss for Little Bear. It is from his grandmother. Will you take it to him Frog?" 
"OK" said Frog. But Frog saw a pond. He stopped to swim. 
"Hi Cat. I have a kiss from Little Bear. It is from his grandmother. Take it to him will you? 
Here I am in the pond. Come and get the kiss."
 "Oogh!" said Cat. But he came and got the kiss. 
Cat saw a nice spot to sleep. 
"Little Skunk I have a kiss for Little Bear. It is from his grandmother. Take it to him like a good little skunk." 
Little Skunk was glad to do that. But then he saw another little skunk. She was very pretty. 
He gave the kiss to her. And she gave it back. And he gave it back. 
And then Hen came along. "Too much kissing" she said. 
"But this is Little Bear's kiss from his grandmother" said Little Skunk. 
"Indeed!" said Hen. "Who has it now?" 
Little Skunk had it. Hen got it back. 
She ran to Little Bear and she gave him the kiss. 
"It is from your grandmother" she said. "It is for the picture you sent her."
 "Take one back to her" said Little Bear. 
"No" said Hen. "It gets all mixed up!"
 The skunks decided to get married. They had a lovely wedding. 
Everyone came. And Little Bear was best man.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Features

Topic

Attitudes

Cats

Frogs

Friendship

Grandparents

Helping

Bears

Birds

Low Frequency Words