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The Snowy Day

RDQ:	203	Max Word/Sent	24	Total Words	322		Diff Words	161
Lex	460	Ave Word/.Sent	10	Hi Freq occurs	183	56.8%	Hi freq	58	36%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	10	Low Freq occurs	3	0.9%	Low freq	3	1.9%

One winter morning Peter woke up 
and looked out the window. Snow 
had fallen during the night. It covered 
everything as far as he could see. ]]
After breakfast he put on his snowsuit and ran 
outside. The snow was piled up very high 
along the street to make a path for walking. ]]
Crunch crunch crunch his feet sank into the snow. 
He walked with his toes pointing out like this. ]]
He walked with his toes pointing in like that: ]]
Then he dragged his feet s-l-o-w-l-y 
to make tracks. ]]
And he found something sticking out 
of the snow that made a new track. ]]
It was a stick]]
 - a stick just right for 
smacking a snow-covered tree. ]]
Down fell the snow - 
plop!
 - on top of Peter's head. ]]
He thought it would be fun to join the big boys in 
their snowball fight but he knew he wasn't old 
enough - not yet. ]]
So he made a smiling snowman ]]
and he made angels. ]]
He pretended 
he was a mountain-climber. 
He climbed up 
a great big tall 
heaping mountain of snow - ]]
and slid all the way down. ]]
He picked up a handful of snow - and another 
and still another. He packed it round and firm and 
put the snowball in his pocket for tomorrow. Then 
he went into his warm house. ]]
He told his mother all about his adventures 
while she took off his wet socks. ]]
And he thought and thought 
and thought about them. ]]
Before he got into bed he looked in his pocket. 
His pocket was empty. The snowball wasn't there. 
He felt very sad. ]]
While he slept he dreamed that the sun 
had melted all the snow away. ]]
But when he woke up his dream was gone. 
The snow was still everywhere. 
New snow was falling! ]]
After breakfast he called to his 
friend from across the hall and 
they went out together into the 
deep deep snow.  ]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Topic

*Weather

Winter

Snowmen

Snow

Games

Imagination

Low Frequency Words

adventures

smacking

snowsuit