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There's A Fly Guy In My Soup

RDQ:	232	Max Word/Sent	14	Total Words	309		Diff Words	137
Lex	490	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	124	40.1%	Hi freq	42	30.7%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	9	2.9%	Low freq	7	5.1%

A boy had  a pet fly. He named him Fly Guy. And Fly Guy could say the boy's name Buzz!]]
Chapter 1.
One day, Fly Guy went with Buzz, Mom, and Dad on a long trip.]]
They drove until dinnertime. They stopped at a hotel. "Yay!" said Buzz. "I love hotels!"]]
"Cool room," said Buzz. "Time for dinner," said Dad. There is a nice restaurant downstairs," said Mom, "but Fly Guy can't go there."]]
"Fly Guy can eat outside," said Buzz. "Right, Fly Guy?"]]
Fly Guy flew outside.]]
He found a trash can. He found a puddle. He found a sticky spot.]]
He found the biggest, slimiest garbage can ever.]]
But he didn't find anything that he wanted to eat.]]
Chapter 2.
Then Fly Guy smelled something wonderful.]]
Fly Guy followed the smell.]]
At last, he found where he wanted to eat!]]
Fly Guy needed to wash before dinner.]]
He spied a small round bathtub with warm brown water. Perfect!]]
Fly guy jumped in. He washed his face and hands. ]]
He washed his armpits. He washed between his toes.]]
Chapter 3.
Fly Guy's bathtub was picked up and carried to another room.]]
It was set down on a table in front of a lady.]]
The lady screamed, "Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!"]]
The lady jumped up. Her soup and Fly Guy went flying.]]
into another lady's soup.]]
That lady jumped up. Her soup and the first lady's soup and Fly Guy went flying.]]
onto a gentleman's head.]]
The gentleman jumped up. The soup and Fly Guy and the gentleman's hair went flying.]]
Everyone jumped up. Everyone's soup and Fly Guy and the gentleman's hair went flying.]]
Fly Guy still needed a bath. Buzz, Mom, and Dad needed a bath.]]
Everyone needed a bath. "Last one in the pool is a rotten egg!" yelled Buzz.]]
Hotel funzzie!]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Features

Topic

Travel/Traveling

Messiness

Food

Insects

Low Frequency Words

funzzie	gentleman	gentleman's	guy's	restaurant
slimiest	spied