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Tyrone The Double Dirty Rotten Cheater

RDQ:	385	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	877		Diff Words	348
Lex	600	Ave Word/.Sent	7	Hi Freq occurs	547	62.4%	Hi freq	145	41.7%
AR	2.4	Long Sentences	1.8	Low Freq occurs	19	2.2%	Low freq	15	4.3%

Boland was a little dinosaur. He and his friends were going to swamp island for a week. They would eat, play games, and sleep out under the stars. Everybody was excited. Everybody that is, except Boland. His worst enemy , Tyrone, was coming along too. Tyrone the horrible, as he was usually called, was known to make trouble. Lots of trouble.]]
Tyrone was just a kid himself, but he was bigger and stronger than the others. No wonder he won the first game so easily.]]
They played other games that had nothing to do with being big or strong. Still, Tyrone won every time period something is not quite right here, Boland thought.]]
Tyrone didn't seem to care what anyone thought. He played by his own rules. For instance, in the game of meteorite bowling he just stepped over the white line when no one was looking. He was soon the meteorite bowling champion.]]
Ha ha Tyrone said to himself. Cheating is easy as long as nobody finds out.]]
Meanwhile, Boland and his friends were upset. They had lost all their meteorites to Tyrone. How did he do it? Stego said, shaking his head. I'm sure that he cheated. Replied to Terry. I think so, too. Said Boland. Next time we will watch him more closely. We have to catch him red handed.]]
The next game was the great dinosaur a grace. It was Boland's favorite. Towards the end Boland was in the lead, closely followed by Tyrone. Suddenly Boland stumbled and fell over something big and green. It was tyrone's foot.]]
You lousy creep. Cried Boland. But Tyrone was already crossing the finish line with a big smile on his face.]]
He is not the winner. Boland told his friends. Didn't you see how he tripped me? But nobody had seen it. They had all been too busy watching their eggs. Naturally Tyrone swore he hadn't done anything wrong. And so they had to give him the first prize, which was a delicious chocolate egg.]]
Once again Tyrone was pleased with himself. Yes, indeed, cheating always works. All you have to do is tell a big fat lie.]]
Time for the sack race. Stella called. Count me out, said Boland bid I'm not playing anymore games with Tyrone. Nobody else wanted to play with Tyrone either. But Stella said, don't be silly. Nobody can cheat in a sack race. Besides, the winner gets the best prize of all a big chocolate dinosaur. Everyone wanted to win the chocolate dinosaur, and soon the race was on. But, believe it or not once again, Tyrone came in first.]]
Tyrone went off by himself to enjoy his prize. But this time Boland followed him and discovered his secret. Tyrone’s sack was cut open at the bottom. He had not hoped like the others he ran the race. You double dirty rotten cheater. Boland cried. Give back that chocolate dinosaur. You don't deserve it..]]
Then Tyrone got mean. You'd better shut up, lizardhead, he said. If you say one word about this to anyone else, I'll break every bone in your body.]]
But Boland told his friends everything. I'm fed up with that brute, he said, and stamped his foot. But what can we do? Stella asked. Tyrone is so big and strong. If Tyrone can't play fair, Boland said. We'll cut him out of the next game. I have an idea. Let's meet tonight after Tyrone goes to sleep.]]
That night around the camp fire Boland told the others his idea. Listen, everybody. This is a map of swamp island, and here is the spot where I have buried a special surprise. Hurray. A treasure hunt. What a great idea. Stego cried. What kind of surprise is it? I can't tell you. It's a secret, said Boland. You will have to wait until tomorrow. The treasure hunt will begin first thing in the morning. But, he said don't say anything to that cheater Tyrone. I don't want him to spoil the surprise.]]
Boland didn't know it, but Tyrone had heard everything. And he was not about to wait until morning. Later that night, when the other dinosaurs were sleeping, he took the map and a shovel]]
and sneaked off into the dark.]]
The sun was about to come up by the time Tyrone found the spot. Aha. He said. I win again period now the treasure will be mine. All mine.]]
Tyrone started to dig wildly. He didn't look where he was throwing the dirt he didn't see the swarm of bees behind him until it was too late.]]
Argh Tyrone yelled as the angry beast went after him. Help. Help. The other dinosaurs heard his cries and came running.]]
When they saw the map and the shovel they knew what had happened. Tyrone tried to beat us again, Terry said. he wanted the surprise for himself. It looks like he got a surprise all right, Boland said with a smile.]]
That evening there was a big party on swamp island. The treasure box had been full of fireworks and Boland and his friends enjoyed the spectacular show. But Tyrone was not happy. He was so sore from his bee stings he had to stay in the water all night.

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Little support

Dialog: Multiple speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Features

Topic

Bullies

Dinosaurs

Fair play/Fairness

Games

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

brute	delicious	deserve	instance	lizardhead
lousy	meanwhile	meteorite	meteorites	naturally
shovel	spectacular	swamp	swarm	towards