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Three Little Pigs: The Wolf's Story

RDQ:	566	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	743		Diff Words	315
Lex	650	Ave Word/.Sent	12	Hi Freq occurs	438	59%	Hi freq	110	34.9%
AR	2.9	Long Sentences	3.3	Low Freq occurs	40	5.4%	Low freq	37	11.7%

Once upon a time in a quiet country village, there lived three little pigs. They were the luckiest swine in the country. They had just inherited enough money from their grandfather to build three new houses.
The first little pig wanted a warm and cozy house that would help him to relax. He built his house out of straw, the warmest and most familiar material he knew. 
The second little pig loved to shock the neighbors. He picked sticks for materials and built a modern house like Frank Lloyd Wright. 
The third little pig, who planned for any imagined disaster, built a sturdy house of bricks and mortar. 
Not far off in the cold, damp forest lived a poor, old wolf. He lived in a rotten, hollow log and searched the forest for whatever food he could find. He had no money-not a single cent-to build a house or plant a garden. Unlike most wolves, he was a vegetarian. 
When winter arrived, it was extremely bitter and harsh. The wolf ate so little that he became weak and caught a terrible cold. Soon he was constantly sniffling and sneezing. He sneezed so hard that he blew dried leaves off the forest's trees.
The sickly wolf left the forest in search of food and shelter. He sniffled and sneezed as he traveled down the road. 
Achoo! Achoo! 
With each sneeze, the snow whirled into a white cloud around his frostbitten ears. 
After walking for several hours, the old wolf came upon the quaint village where the three pigs lived. Being so very cold and so very hungry, he hurried to the nearest house as fast as his stiff body could carry him. 
He knocked on the straw door. He hoped that whoever lived there would take pity on him and let him come inside. 
Before the timid little pig could reach the door, the wolf began to sneeze and sneeze. 
Achoo! Achoo!
To the wolf's surprise, he sneezed so hard that he blew the straw house apart. The frightened little pig thought the wolf wanted to eat him, so he scurried off to his brother's house. 
In a trembling voice, the pig warned his brother about the wolf who had blown down his house. They quickly locked the door and hid under a bed. 
"The wolf followed the pig to the stick house, desperate after destroying his first chance at food and shelter. 
"Please, oh please, give me something to eat and a warm place to rest," he pleaded. 
The two pigs remained hidden under the bed, fearing for their lives. Once again the old wolf began to sneeze and sneeze. 
Achoo! Achoo! 
His sneezing shook the house of sticks. Three more sneezes and the house fell down. The two panicked pigs ran off over the hill to their brother's house of bricks. 
Their brother was sure the wolf couldn't destroy his house. To be on the safe side, the pigs locked the doors and windows and hid in the safest room. 
When the two brothers had calmed down a bit, the three pigs sat down to a game of cards. 
The wolf again came begging for food and shelter. He was delirious. The weather and the illness had sapped his strength. 
One last time, the wolf began to sneeze and sneeze. The brick house stood strong, but the wolf teetered until a final sneeze made him collapse in the drifting snow. 
The wolf lay there unconscious. After much time passed, a weasel pulling a sled found the wolf nearly frozen. 
The weasel, being kind and concerned, struggled to pull the old wolf onto his sled.
The weasel finally managed to load up the wolf and tugged the sled to his house at the edge of the village. He helped the sick creature into bed, where he nursed the wolf back to health with vegetable broth.
When spring came, the healthy wolf explained his terrible ordeal to the three pig brothers. The pigs were ashamed that they hadn't realized what was happening. 
The wolf didn't blame them for misunderstanding. To make up for blowing down the two houses, the wolf helped the little pigs rebuild. 
Then all of the villagers joined together to build the wolf a new house. The wolf's new neighbors also helped him plant a garden full of fresh vegetables. 
From that day on, the old wolf was never cold or hungry again, and he never sneezed another sneeze. ]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Simple

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Inferences: Some implications

Concept: Fanciful

Glossary

Additional activities

Features

Parody

Topic

Wolves

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

calmed	concerned	constantly	delirious	extremely
familiar	forest's	harsh	healthy	hollow
illness	imagined	luckiest	material	materials
misunderstanding	mortar	neighbors	ordeal	panicked
pleaded	quaint	rebuild	scurried	sickly
sniffled	sniffling	sturdy	swine	teetered
timid	unconscious	vegetarian	villagers	warned
weasel	whirled