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How Bear Lost his Tail

RDQ:	168	Max Word/Sent	12	Total Words	212		Diff Words	124
Lex	210	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	105	49.5%	Hi freq	49	39.5%
AR	1.7	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	1	0.5%	Low freq	1	0.8%

Once Upon a time, bear had a long, thick tail.]]
The other animals loved his tail.]]
Bear didn't like it at all.]]
He tripped over it when he was walking.]]
It tickled his nose when he tried to sleep.]]
Little animals would even ride on it.]]
Bear's tail is better than mine, thought fox.]]
He decided to play a trick on him.]]
He crept over to a fisherman]]
and took a few fish.]]
Fox carried the fish to an ice hole in the lake.]]
Bear smelled them. He came closer.]]
Those fish look delicious, said bear.]]
I can show you how to catch them, said fox.]]
Put your tail in the hole, fox told bear.]]
The fish will bite it and you can pull them out. It may take some time.]]
Bear waited and waited. Day became night.]]
The night grew cold. It began to snow.]]
The next day, fox came back. Was bear still there?]]
Fox could only see a huge heap of snow. Bear? He shouted.]]
Bear jumped up. But his tail had frozen in the lake. It broke off.]]
I'm so sorry. Fox cried. I didn't know that would happen.]]
Bear looked at his new short tail, and smiled. That's better.]]
Bare padded away and he did trip once.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Speech Bubbles

Vocabulary: Easy

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Features

Clear cause/effect

Topic

Foxes

*Animals

Bears

Low Frequency Words

delicious