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Farmer Duck

RDQ:	246	Max Word/Sent	53	Total Words	395		Diff Words	132
Lex	510	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	205	51.9%	Hi freq	43	32.6%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	3	Low Freq occurs	6	1.5%	Low freq	5	3.8%

There once was a duck 
who had the bad luck to live 
with a lazy old farmer. 
The duck did the work. 
The farmer stayed 
all day in bed. ]]
The duck fetched the cow from the field. 
"How goes the work?" called the farmer. 
The duck answered 
"Quack!" ]]
The duck brought the sheep from the hill. 
"How goes the work?" called the farmer. 
The duck answered 
"Quack!" ]]
The duck put the hens in their house. 
"How goes the work?" 
called the farmer. 
The duck answered 
"Quack!" ]]
The farmer go fat through staying in bed 
and the poor duck got fed up 
with working all day. ]]
"How goes the work?" 
"Quack!" 
"How goes the work?" 
"Quack!" ]]
"How goes the work?" 
"Quack!" 
"How goes the work?" 
"Quack!" ]]
"How goes the work?" 
"Quack!" 
"How goes the work?" 
"Quack?" ]]
Soon the poor duck grew 
sleepy and weepy 
and tired. ]]
The hens and the cow and 
the sheep got very upset. 
They loved the duck. 
So they held a meeting under 
the moon and they made 
a plan for the morning. 
"Moo!" 
said the cow. 
"Baa!" 
said the sheep. 
"Cluck!" 
said the hens. 
And that was the plan! ]]
It was just before dawn and the farmyard was still. 
Through the back door and into the house 
crept the cow and the sheep 
and the hens. ]]
They stole 
down the hall. 
They creaked 
up the stairs. ]]
They squeezed under the bed of 
the farmer and wriggled about.  
The bed started to rock 
and the farmer woke up 
and he called 
"How goes the work?" 
and ...]]
"Moo!" 
"Baa!" 
"Cluck!" 
They lifted his bed 
and he started to shout 
and they banged and they bounced 
the old farmer about and about and about 
right out of the bed...]]
and he fled with the cow and the sheep and the hens ]]
mooing and baaing and clucking behind him. ]]
Down the lane...
"Moo!" 
through the fields...
"Baa!" ]]
over the hill...
"Cluck!" 
and he never came back. ]]
The duck awoke and 
waddled wearily into 
the yard expecting to hear 
"How goes the work?" 
But nobody spoke!]]
Then the cow and the sheep 
and the hens came back. 
"Quack?" asked the duck. 
"Moo!" said the cow. 
"Baa!" said the sheep. 
"Cluck!" said the hens.
Which told the duck 
the whole 
story. ]]
Then mooing and baaing 
and clucking and quacking 
they all set to work 
on their farm. ]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Several repetitions of phrases or refrains

Dialog: Multiple speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Some Long/Complex

Text structure: Story/Poem

Inferences: Some implications

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Integral Setting

Topic

Sharing

Work

Challenges

*Animals

Farms

Animals: Farm

Noises

Low Frequency Words

fetched

mooing

waddled

wearily

wriggled