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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

RDQ:	254	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	281		Diff Words	138
Lex	510	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	108	38.4%	Hi freq	39	28.3%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	2.4	Low Freq occurs	16	5.7%	Low freq	13	9.4%

A told B and B told C 
"I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree." "Whee!" said D to E F G "I'll beat you to the top of the coconut tree." Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! Will there be enough room? Here comes H up the coconut tree and I and J and tag-along K all on their way up the coconut tree. Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? Look who's coming! L M N O P! And Q R S! And T U V! Still more - W! And X Y Z! The whole alphabet up the 0h no! Chicka chicka...Boom! Boom! Skit skat skoodle doot. Flip flop flee. Everybody running to the coconut tree. Mamas and papas and uncles and aunts hug their little dears and dust their pants. "Help us up" cried A B C. Next from the pileup skinned-knee D and stubbed-toe E and patched-up F. Then comes G all out of breath. H is tangled up with I. J and K are about to cry. L is knotted like a tie. M is looped. N is stooped. O is twisted alley-oop. Skit skat skoodle doot. Flip flop flee. Look who's coming! It's black-eyed P Q R S and loose-tooth T. Then U V W wiggle-jiggle free. Last to come X Y Z. And the sun goes down on the coconut tree...But - chicka chicka boom boom! Look there's a full moon. A is out of bed and this is what he said "Dare double dare you can't catch me. I'll beet you to the top of the coconut tree." Chicka chicka Boom! Boom!

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Several repetitions of phrases or refrains

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Rhyming

Topic

Trees

Alphabet

Rhythm

Low Frequency Words

doot	eyed	knotted	looped	mamas
papas	patched	pileup	skat	skinned
skoodle	stubbed	tangled