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Bringing the Rain To Kapiti Plain

RDQ:	538	Max Word/Sent	74	Total Words	739		Diff Words	132
Lex	640	Ave Word/.Sent	41	Hi Freq occurs	377	51%	Hi freq	42	31.8%
AR	2.8	Long Sentences	116.7	Low Freq occurs	34	4.6%	Low freq	15	11.4%

This is the great Kapiti Plain, All fresh and green
from the African rains - A sea of grass for the ground birds to nest in, And patches of shade for wild creatures to rest in; With acacia trees for giraffes to browse on, And grass for the herdsmen to pasture their cows on.
But one year the rains were so very belated, That all of the big wild creatures migrated. Then Ki-pat helped to end that terrible drought And this story tells
how it all came about!
This is the cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
This is the grass,
all brown and dead, That needed the rain
from the cloud overhead The big, black cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
These are the cows,
all hungry and dry, Who mooed for the rain to fall from the sky; To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain
from the cloud overhead The big, black cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
This is Ki-pat,
who watched his herd As he stood on one leg, like the big stork bird; Ki-pat, whose cows
were so hungry and dry, They mooed for the rain
to fall from the sky; To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain
from the cloud overhead The big, black cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
This is the eagle
who dropped a feather, A feather that helped
to change the weather. It fell near Ki-pat,
who watched his herd As he stood on one leg, like the big stork bird; Ki-pat, whose cows
were so hungry and dry, They mooed for the rain to fall from the sky;
To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain
from the cloud overhead The big, black cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
This is the arrow Ki-pat put together, With a slender stick
and an eagle feather; From the eagle who happened to drop a feather,
A feather that helped
to change the weather.
It fell near Ki-pat,
who watched his herd As he stood on one leg, like the big stork bird; Ki-pat, whose cows
were so hungry and dry, They mooed for the rain
to fall from the sky; To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain
from the cloud overhead The big, black cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
This is the bow,
so long and strong, And strung with a string, a leather thong;
A bow for the arrow Ki-pat put together, With a slender stick
and an eagle feather; From the eagle who happened to drop a feather,
A feather that helped
to change the weather.
It fell near Ki-pat,
who watched his herd As he stood on one leg, like the big stork bird; Ki-pat, whose cows
were so hungry and dry, They mooed for the rain
to fall from the sky; To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain
from the cloud overhead The big, black cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
This was the shot
that pierced the cloud And loosed the rain with thunder LOUD! A shot from the bow,
so long and strong, And strung with a string, a leather thong;
A bow for the arrow Ki-pat put together, With a slender stick
and an eagle feather; From the eagle who happened to drop a feather,
A feather that helped
to change the weather.
It fell near Ki-pat,
who watched his herd As he stood on one leg, like the big stork bird; Ki-pat, whose cows
were so hungry and dry, They mooed for the rain to fall from the sky;
To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain
from the cloud overhead The big, black cloud,
all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
So the grass grew green, and the cattle fat! And Ki-pat got a wife and a little Ki-pat-
Who tends the cows now, and shoots down the rain, When black clouds shadow Kapiti Plain.

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Repeated patterns in cumulative form

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Difficult

Text structure: Difficult

Features

Integral Setting

Retelling of story/fable/legend

Difficult names

Rhyming

Unconventional punctuation

Unusual use of vocabulary

Topic

*Weather

Nature

Rain

Low Frequency Words

acacia	belated	drought	herd	herdsmen
kapiti	loosed	migrated	mooed	pasture
patches	pierced	shadowed	slender	thong