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Plenty of Penguins

RDQ:	196	Max Word/Sent	18	Total Words	219		Diff Words	140
Lex	420	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	117	53.4%	Hi freq	53	37.9%
AR	1.9	Long Sentences	2.9	Low Freq occurs	8	3.7%	Low freq	6	4.3%

What's black and white
and cute as can be?]]
A penguin.
That's me.
Do you want to meet
my family?]]
Penguins are big.]]
And penguins are small.
We have sharp,
pointy feathers.
But that's not all]]
We can have stripes
or spots
here and there.]]
Long, bushy brows
or spiky hair.]]
There are even bright colors
that some of us share.]]
I live at the South Pole.
It is covered with
ice,
ice,
ice.
I think ice is very nice.]]
We have homes
in other places, too]]
South Africa,
New Zealand,
Australia,
and Peru.]]
We cannot fly
up,
up, 
up, and away.
That is strange for a bird,
wouldn't you say?]]
We waddle and hop
and have lots of fun.
We swim.
And we dive
down
deep,
one by one.]]
We find many little fish,
squid, and shrimp
to eat.
They are mmm, mmm, good.
Yum, yum what a treat.]]
But we have to watch out.
We might become meals
for killer whales
and leopard seals.]]
On land
we live in great, big groups
called colonies.]]
They are also known
as rookeries.]]
We make nests.
We rest.]]
We lay eggs.
We keep them warm.]]
We watch,
and we wait,
and we keep them from harm
until]]
The eggs hatch!]]
Hooray! Hooray!
New baby penguin chicks
are here to stay.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Features

Topic

*Animals

Arctic Areas

Ice

Penguins

Birds

Low Frequency Words

colonies	leopard	penguin	penguins	rookeries
spiky