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Nine O'clock Lullaby

RDQ:	404	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	435		Diff Words	211
Lex	610	Ave Word/.Sent	9	Hi Freq occurs	206	47.4%	Hi freq	48	22.7%
AR	2.5	Long Sentences	6.7	Low Freq occurs	35	8%	Low freq	24	11.4%

9 PM in Brooklyn, New York. The vroom and shush of traffic outside the bedroom window while Mama turns the pages of a sleepy time tale. 9:00 PM in Brooklyn, New York is]]
10:00 PM in Puerto Rico. Sweet rice, fruit ice, coconut candy. Papa playing congas, Tio his guitar. Swaying lanterns in the branches, dancing people on the grass. Bedtime is forgotten on a special party night. 10:00 PM in Puerto Rico is]]
Midnight on the Mid-Atlantic nothing blacker than the water, nothing wider than the sky. Pitch and toss, pitch and toss. The Big Dipper might just ladle a drink out of the sea. Midnight on the Mid-Atlantic is]]
2:00 AM in England. Bread in the pantry at night time tastes better than cream cakes at tea. 2:00 AM in England is]]
3:00 AM in Zaire dreaming by the Congo.]]
3:00 AM in Switzerland dreaming in the Alps. 3:00 AM in Zaire and Switzerland is]]
5:00 AM in Moscow. A crash and a clatter and the samovar on the floor. The cat has done it again. Papa wakes up with a laugh. Mamma wakes up with a shout. Babushka doesn't wake at all, but just stays snoring in her bed. 5:00 AM in Moscow, russia, is]]
7 AM in India. All over the village well ropes squeak, buckets splash, bracelets jingle, long braids swish. All over the village morning music. 7:00 AM in India is]]
10:00 AM in Guangzhou, China. On the way to goat city auntie pedals quickly, flying like a dragon. On the way to goat city elder sister pedals slowly flapping like a goose. 10:00 AM in Guangzhou, China is]]
11:00 AM in Japan. In the pond grandfather floats a tulip so the fish can greet the spring. 11:00 AM in Japan is]]
noon in Sydney Australia. At the Barbie, five cousins, four uncles, three aunts, two sheepdogs, six lizards, and one Sly kookaburra steal sausage right off the plates. Noon in Sydney, Australia, is]]
3:00 PM in Samoa. The rain has stopped. The sea is calm. Let's weave, say the mothers. Let's fish, say the fathers. Let's chase the dogs, say the brothers, before it rains again. 3:00 PM in Samoa is]]
5:00 PM in nome, Alaska. Toss the blanket high. Toss the blanket higher. Ask her, can you see the Caribou? Ask her, can she touch the sky? 5:00 PM in nome, Alaska, is]]
6:00 PM in Los Angeles. The sun eases down like a giant golden dinner plate at the end of the day on the beach. 6:00 PM in Los Angeles is]]
9:00 PM in Brooklyn, New York. The vroom and shush of traffic outside the bedroom window while Mama turns the pages of a sleepy time tale.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Little support

Dialog: Simple

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

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Low Frequency Words

babushka	blacker	caribou	congas	cousins
eases	elder	guangzhou	guitar	kookaburra
ladle	lanterns	mamma	nome	pantry
pm	puerto	samoa	samovar	switzerland
tio	tulip	vroom	zaire