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Two Dog Biscuits

RDQ:	224	Max Word/Sent	26	Total Words	1216		Diff Words	284
Lex	480	Ave Word/.Sent	9	Hi Freq occurs	849	69.8%	Hi freq	137	48.2%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	5.3	Low Freq occurs	23	1.9%	Low freq	13	4.6%

Now that Jimmy and Janet are four years old
they can do lots of things. They can draw pictures
of funny bugs and birthday cakes and eggs in
a nest.]]
They can sing Skip to My Lou. They 
can pump themselves up high
in their swings and they can swat flies.]]
Jimmy and Janet are twins. This means they have
the same father the same mother and the same
birthday too.]]
They get up at the same time and go to bed at the
same time.]]
Janet always has Jimmy to swing with her on the
glider and Jimmy always has Janet to sit on the
other end of the teeter-totter.]]
"I think twins are a very nice arrangement" said
Mother. "What does 'very nice arrangement '
mean?" asked Janet who liked big words.
"It means I am glad I have twins" answered
Mother. Jimmy and Janet think twins are a nice
arrangement too.]]
One morning Jimmy and Janet went to see Mrs.
Robbins the lady next door and her dog Muffy.
When they came home Jimmy was carrying a dog
biscuit shaped like a bone. Janet was carrying a
dog biscuit shaped like a bone too.
"See what Mrs. Robbins gave us" they said.
"What are you going to do with two dog biscuits?"
asked Mother.
"I'm going to keep my dog biscuit" said Jimmy.
"I'm going to keep my dog biscuit too" said
Janet. "It is a nice little dog biscuit."
"All right" said Mother "but be sure you don't eat
the dog biscuits. Dog biscuits are for dogs."]]
Janet laid her dog biscuit on a chair. Jimmy laid his
dog biscuit on the couch. When Mother started to
sit on the couch she asked "Whose dog biscuit
is this?"]]
"My dog biscuit" answered Jimmy and put his
dog biscuit on the kitchen table. Janet put her dog 
biscuit on the kitchen table too. She did not want
Mother to sit on her dog biscuit.]]
At lunchtime Mother said "Put your dog biscuits
away children. I don't want you to get mixed up
and eat them for lunch. Dog biscuits are for dogs."
Jimmy and Janet put their dob biscuits in their
pockets.]]
After lunch and naps Mother said "It's time for
some clean clothes." When Jimmy took off his
jeans his dog biscuit fell out of his pocket. When
Janet took off her coveralls her dog biscuit fell out
of her pocket too.]]
"My goodness" said Mother. "Every place I look
I see dog biscuits. Why don't you take the dog
biscuits next door and give them to Muffy?"
"Muffy has dog biscuits" said Janet. "He has a bit
bag of them."]]
"Then give the dog biscuits to some other dog"
said Mother.
"Dogs don't come to our house" said Jimmy.
"Then let's go find a dog" said Mother. "Put on
your clean clothes and we'll go for a walk and find
a dog that would like two dog biscuits."]]
So Jimmy and Janet wearing their clean clothes
went for a walk with Mother. "Be on the lookout 
for a dog" said Mother.
"What does 'be on the lookout' mean?" said Janet.
"It means to watch for something" answered Mother.
Jimmy and Janet and Mother were on the lookout
for a dog.]]
The first dog they met was a big brown
dog. "I don't want to give my dog biscuit to a
brown dog" said Jimmy.
"I don't want to give my dog biscuit to a big 
dog" said Janet.
"Oh dear" said Mother. "I guess
we will have to find another dog."]]
After a while they met a small white
dog. "I'm sure this dog is very
hungry" said Mother. The little dog
barked. Yip-yip-yip.
"No" said Janet. "That is not a nice
dog. I want to give my nice little
dog biscuit to a nice little dog."
"Oh dear" said Mother. "I guess
we will have to find another dog."]]
After a while they met a big black dog. "I'm sure
this dog would like two dog biscuits" said
Mother.
The dog was hungry. He barked. Woof-woof-woof.]]
"No" said Jimmy. "I don't like dogs that bark."
"Oh dear" said Mother. "I guess we will have to
find another dog."]]
They went on walking. They met big dogs little
dogs smooth dogs curly dogs dogs that sniffed
and dogs that wagged their tails. Each time they
met a dog Jimmy and Janet said "No I don't want
to give my dog biscuit to this dog."]]
"Oh dear" said Mother. "What are we going
to do? It's almost time for Daddy to come home
and we have not found the right dog to give the
dog biscuits to. What are we going to do?"
Jimmy and Janet thought and thought. What were
they going to do? They did not really want to give 
their dog biscuits to a dog. If Muffy had his own
dog biscuits other dogs must have dog biscuits too.]]
"We could give the dog biscuits to a cat" said Janet
and laughed. What a funny idea dog biscuits for
a cat!
"Oh no" said Mother. "A cat couldn't eat a dog
biscuit because it would be too hard for his teeth.
Dog biscuits are for dogs." Just the same on the
way home Jimmy and Janet were on the lookout
for a cat.]]
When they were almost home Janet spied a big
tiger cat snoozing on a driveway in the sunshine.
"There is a cat" she said. "I'm going to give him
my dog biscuit."
"I'm afraid that cat does not want your dog
biscuit" said Mother.
Janet tiptoed over to the cat and laid her dog biscuit
under his nose. "Here is a present for you kitty"
she said.]]
The cat opened one eye.
He opened the other eye.
He stood up and stretched.
He sniffed the dog biscuit.
Then he sat down and began to eat. It was hard
work for him to eat such a hard biscuit but he
crunched and munched and pretty soon the biscuit
was gone.]]
The cat licked his whiskers looked around and
said "Meow."
"He liked my dog biscuit" said Janet. "He's saying
thank you."
"He wants another dog biscuit" said Jimmy.
"Here kitty. Here is another present for you." The
cat crunched and munched Jimmy's dog biscuit
and when it was all gone he sat up and began
to wash.]]
"You didn't know a cat would eat dog biscuits"
Jimmy said to Mother. "You said dog biscuits were
for dogs." He and Janet laughed. What fun it was
to know something a grown-up didn't know!
"No I didn't know a cat would eat dog biscuits
but now I know it" said Mother and she laughed
too. "Oh look there's Daddy coming home 
from work."
"Daddy! Daddy!" shouted Janet running down
the sidewalk to meet him. "We gave our dog
biscuits to a cat and he ate them!"]]
"Daddy Daddy!" shouted Jimmy running down
the sidewalk to meet him. "Mother said the cat
wouldn't eat the dog biscuits but he did! She
didn't know!"]]
Daddy caught Jimmy and Janet and picked them
both up at the same time. "Your mother didn't
know a cat would eat dog biscuits!" he exclaimed.
"What a big joke on Mother!"]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Multiple speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Features

Topic

Dogs

Cats

Jokes

*Animals

Low Frequency Words

biscuit	biscuits	coveralls	jeans	munched
pockets	robbins	snoozing	spied	swat
teeter	totter	whiskers