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Pelle's New Suit

RDQ:	350	Max Word/Sent	33	Total Words	460		Diff Words	161
Lex	580	Ave Word/.Sent	15	Hi Freq occurs	265	57.6%	Hi freq	58	36%
AR	2.3	Long Sentences	23.3	Low Freq occurs	16	3.5%	Low freq	11	6.8%

There was once a little Swedish boy whose name was Pelle. Now, Pelle had a lamb which was all his own, and which he took care of all by himself.

The lamb grew and Pelle grew. And the lamb's coat grew longer and longer, but Pelle's coat only grew shorter!
One day Pelle took a pair of shears and cut off all the lamb's wool.
Then he took the wool to his grandmother, and said: "Granny dear, please card this wool for me!"
"That I will, my dear," said Granny, "if you will pull the weeds in my carrot patch for me."
So Pelle pulled the weeds in Granny's carrot patch, and Granny carded Pelle's wool.
Then Pelle went to his other grandmother and said: "Grandmother dear, please spin this wool into yarn for me!" "That I will gladly do, my dear," said his grandmother, "if while I am spinning you will tend my cows for me."
And so Pelle tended Grandmother's cows and Grandmother spun Pelle's yarn.
Then Pelle went to a neighbor who was a painter and asked him for some colour with which to dye his yarn. "What a silly boy you are!" laughed the painter. "My paint is not what you want to colour your wool. But if you will row over to the store to get a bottle of turpentine for me, you may buy yourself some dye out of the change from the money."
So Pelle rowed over to the store and bought a bottle of turpentine for the painter, and bought for himself a large sack of blue dye out of the change from the money.
Then he dyed his wool himself until it was blue all through.
And then Pelle went to his mother and said: "Mother dear, please weave this yarn into cloth for me."
"That I will gladly do, " said his mother, "if you will take care of your little sister for me."
So Pelle took care of his little sister, and Mother wove the wool into cloth.
Then Pelle went to the tailor: "Dear Mr Tailor, please make a suit for me out of this cloth."
"Is that what you want, you little rascal?" said the tailor. "Indeed I will, if you will rake my hay and bring in my wood and feed my pigs for me."
So Pelle raked the tailor's hay and fed his pigs.
And then he carried in all the wood. and the tailor had Pelle's suit ready that very Saturday evening.
And on Sunday morning Pelle put on his new suit and went to his lamb and said: "Thank you very much for my new suit, little lamb."
"Ba-a-ah," said the lamb, and it sounded almost as if the lamb were laughing.

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Prior Knowledge: Familiarity

Features

Character traits

Integral Setting - Historical

Simple problem/solution

Topic

Work

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

carded	colour	neighbor	raked	rascal
rowed	shears	swedish	tailor	tailor's
turpentine