Purple Dog Buys a Kite

¹     The sun came up. Mother Dog fed her little dog. His name was Purple. Then his mother gave him a dime. She sent him to the store to buy a kite.

²     Purple met a red frog at the store. They stopped to chat.

³     "What are you doing today?" asked the red frog.

⁴     "I am here to buy a kite," said Purple.

⁵     "That sounds like fun," said the frog. "Will you buy a purple kite?"

⁶     Purple shook his head. "No. I like yellow. My kite will be as yellow as a lemon."

⁷     They went into the store. There were many kites. Purple did not see any yellow ones. He felt sad.

⁸     Just then, Purple Dog saw a yellow kite! Red Frog saw it, too. He tried to grab it.

⁹     "Hey," yelled Purple. "You took my kite!"

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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grade 1
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	0.18

	challenging words:		mother, costs, doing, sounds, cent, cost, dark, dime, goodbye, grab, happy, head, kite, left, lemon, name
	content words:		Mother Dog, Purple Dog, Red Frog

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