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The Enormous Potato

RDQ:	149	Max Word/Sent	13	Total Words	362		Diff Words	83
Lex	190	Ave Word/.Sent	4	Hi Freq occurs	169	46.7%	Hi freq	29	34.9%
AR	1.6	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	0	0%	Low freq	0	0%

There once was a farmer who had an eye.
It wasn't like your eye or my eye.
It was a potato eye.
The farmer planted it.
And it grew into a potato.]]
The potato grew bigger and bigger.]]
It grew fat.
It grew enormous.]]
It was the biggest potato
in the world.]]
""It's time to pull it out,""
said the farmer.
So he grabbed the potato.
He pulled and pulled again.
But the potato wouldn't 
come out of the ground.
So he called his wife.]]
The wife grabbed the farmer.
The farmer grabbed the potato.
They pulled and pulled again.
But the potato wouldn't 
come out of the ground.
So the wife called their daughter.]]
The daughter grabbed the wife.
The wife grabbed the farmer.
The farmer grabbed the potato.
They pulled and pulled again.
But the potato wouldn't 
come out of the ground.
So the daughter called the dog.]]
""Rowf! Rowf! Rowf!""
The dog grabbed the daughter.
The daughter grabbed the wife.
The wife grabbed the farmer.
The farmer grabbed the potato.
They pulled and pulled again.
But the potato wouldn't 
come out of the ground.
So the dog called the cat.]]
""Meow! Meow! Meow!""
The cat grabbed the dog.
The dog grabbed the daughter.
The daughter grabbed the wife.
The wife grabbed the farmer.
The farmer grabbed the potato.
They pulled and pulled again.
But the potato wouldn't 
come out of the ground.
So the cat called the mouse.]]
""Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!""
The mouse grabbed the cat.
The cat grabbed the dog.
The dog grabbed the daughter.
The daughter grabbed the wife.
The wife grabbed the farmer.
The farmer grabbed the potato.
They pulled and pulled again.]]
Rip!
Out came the potato!]]
""That's a big potato!""
said the farmer.
""That's a big potato!""
said the wife.
That's a dirty potato!""
said the daughter.
So they washed it,
and chopped it,
and cooked it, too.]]
The smell of potato brought the people from town.]]
They brought forks.
They brought bowls.
They brought butter and salt.
Soon everyone was eating potato.
My, it was good.]]
They ate and they ate...]]
till the potato was gone.]]
And now the story is gone, too.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Topic

Size

*Plants

Cooperation

Food

Gardens/Gardening

Helping

Low Frequency Words