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In the Night Kitchen

RDQ:	282	Max Word/Sent	32	Total Words	320		Diff Words	139
Lex	530	Ave Word/.Sent	10	Hi Freq occurs	175	54.7%	Hi freq	49	35.3%
AR	2.2	Long Sentences	20	Low Freq occurs	9	2.8%	Low freq	8	5.8%

Did you ever hear of Mickey
How he heard a racket in the night]]
and shouted
Quiet down there!]]
and fell through the dark out of his clothes]]
past the moon & his mama & papa sleeping tight]]
into the light of the night kitchen?]]
Where the bakers who bake till the
dawn so we can have cake in the morn
mixed Mickey in batter chanting:]]
Milk in the batter! Milk in the Batter!
Stir it! Scrape it! Make it! Bake!]]
And they put that batter up to bake]]
a delicious Mickey-cake.]]
But right in the middle
of the steaming
and the making
and the smelling and the baking
Mickey poked through
and said:]]
I'm not the
milk and the
milk's not me!
I'm Mickey!]]
So he skipped from the oven & into bread dough
all ready to rise in the night kitchen.]]
He kneaded and punched it
and pounded it and pulled]]
till it looked okay.]]
Then Mickey in dough was just on his way]]
When the bakers ran up
with a measuring cup howling:]]
Milk! Milk! Milk for the morning cake!]]
What's all the fuss? I'm Mickey the pilot!
I get milk the Mickey way!]]
And he grabbed the cup as he flew up]]
and up and up]]
and over the top
of the milky way
in the night kitchen.]]
Mickey the milkman dived down to the bottom]]
singing: I'm in the milk and the milk's in me.
God bless Milk and God Bless Me!]]
Then he swam to the top pouring milk 
from his cup into batter below-]]
So the bakers they mixed it
and beat it and baked it.]]
Milk in the
Batter! Milk
in the batter!]]
We bake cake!
And nothing's the matter!]]
Now Mickey in the night kitchen cried
Cock a doodle doo!
And slid down the side]]
Straight into bed]]
cake free and dried.]]
And that's why thanks to Mickey
We have cake every morning.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Speech Bubbles

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Some Long/Complex

Text structure: Story/Poem

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Topic

Dreams

Cooking

Imagination

*Home Arts & Food

*Human Body & Health

Low Frequency Words

delicious	kneaded	measuring	milk's	milkman
morn	pouring	racket