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Little Red Riding Hood

RDQ:	525	Max Word/Sent	39	Total Words	1005		Diff Words	347
Lex	640	Ave Word/.Sent	12	Hi Freq occurs	706	70.2%	Hi freq	164	47.3%
AR	2.8	Long Sentences	13.4	Low Freq occurs	29	2.9%	Low freq	25	7.2%

Once upon a time there was a sweet little maiden 
who was loved by all who knew her.She was especially dear to her grandmother who did not know how to make enough of the child. Once she gave her a little red velvet cloak. It was so becoming and she liked it so much that she would never wear anything else. So she got the name of Little Red Riding Hood. One day her mother said to her "Come here Little Red Riding Hood! Take this cake and bottle of wine to grandmother. She is weak and ill and they will do her good. go quickly before it gets too hot. Don't loiter along the way nor run or you will fall and break the bottle and there will be no wine for grandmother. When you get there don't forget to say 'Good morning' prettily without staring about you." "I will do just as you tell me" Little Red Riding Hood promised her mother. Her grandmother lived away in the wood a good half hour from the village. When she got to the wood she met a wolf but Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicket animal he was so she was not a bit afraid of him. "Good morning Little Red Riding Hood" he said. "Good morning wolf" she answered. "Whither away so early Little Red Riding Hood?" "To grandmother's." "What have you got in your basket?" "Cake and wine. We baked yesterday so I am taking a cake to her. She wants something to make her well." "Where does your grandmother live Little Red Riding Hood?" "A good quarter of an hour farther into the wood. Her house stands under three big oak trees near a hedge of nut trees which you must know" said Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf thought "This tender little creature will be a plump morsel! She will be nicer than the old woman. I must be cunning and snap them both up." He walked along with Little Red Riding Hood for a while. Then he said "Look at the pretty flowers Little Red Riding Hood. Why don't you look about you? I don't believe you even hear the birds sing. You are as solemn as if you were going to school. All else is so gay out here in the woods." Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes and when you saw the sunlight dancing through the trees and all the bright flowers she thought "I'm sure grandmother would be pleased if I took her a bunch of fresh flowers. It is still quite early. I shall have plenty of time to pick them." So she left the path and wandered off among the trees to pick the flowers. Each time she picked one she always saw another prettier one farther on. So she went deeper and deeper into the forest.  In the meantime the wolf went straight off to the grandmother's cottage and knocked on the door. "Who is there?" "Little Red Riding Hood bringing you a cake and some wine. Open the door!" "Lift the latch" called out the old woman. "I am too weak to get up."  The wolf lifted the latch and the door sprang open he went straight in and up to the bed without saying a word and ate up the poor old woman. Then he put on her nightdress and cap got into the bed and drew the curtains. Little Red Riding Hood picked flowers till she could carry no more and then she remembered her grandmother again. She was astonished when she got to the house to find the door open and when she entered the room everything seemed strange. She felt quite frightened but she did not know why. "Generally I like coming to see grandmother so much" she thought. "Good morning grandmother" she cried. But she received no answer. Then she went up to the bed and drew the curtains back. There lay her grandmother but she had drawn a cap down over her face and looked very odd. "Oh grandmother what big ears you have" she said. "The better to hear you with my dear." "Grandmother what big eyes you have." "The better to see you with my dear." What big hands you have grandmother." The better to catch hold of you with my dear." But grandmother what big teeth you have." "The better to eat you with my dear." Hardly had the wolf said this when he made a spring out of bed and swallowed poor little Red Riding Hood. A huntsman went out past th house and thought "How loudly the old lady is snoring. I must see if there is anything the matter with her." So he went to the house and up to the bed where he found the wolf fast asleep. "Di I find you here you old sinner!" he said. "Long enough have I sought you!" He raised his gun to shot when it just occurred to him that perhaps the wolf had eaten up the old lady and that she might still be saved. So he took a knife and began cutting open the sleeping wolf. At first he was the little red cloak and after a few more slashes the little girl sprang out and cried "Oh how frightened I was! It was so dark inside the wolf." Next old grandmother came alive but hardly able to breathe. Little Red Riding Hood brought some big stones with which they filled the wolf. He awoke and tried to spring up but the stones dragged him back and he fell down dead. They were all quite happy now. The huntsman skinned the wolf and took the skin home. The grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Little Red Riding Hood had brought and she soon felt quite strong. Little Red Riding Hood thought to herself "I will never again wander off into the forest as long as I live when my mother forbids it."]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Some Long/Complex

Text structure: Story/Poem

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Retelling of story/fable/legend

Topic

Family

Forests

Grandparents

Helping

Relationships

Low Frequency Words

astonished	curtains	drawn	generally	hedge
huntsman	latch	loiter	maiden	meantime
morsel	nightdress	occurred	prettier	prettily
skinned	slashes	solemn	sought	sprang
swallowed	velvet	wander	wandered	whither
wicket