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Your Bones


Your Bones
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grade 1
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   1.64

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    school, costume, longest, skeleton, yogurt, teacher, liked, body, bone, cheese, even, milk, name, protect, puzzle, shape
     content words:    Miss Smith


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Your Bones
By Jennifer Kenny
  

1     Jimmy had fun in school. Jimmy liked his teacher. Her name was Miss Smith.
 
2     Miss Smith was fun. She came to school in a costume. It was not even Halloween.
 
3     Why were there bones on her costume? Why did Miss Smith look like a skeleton?
 
4     Miss Smith asked, "What are big and small?"
 
5     Miss Smith asked, "What helps you grow tall?"
 
6     Miss Smith asked, "What gives you your shape?"
 
7     Jimmy said, "Your bones do."
 
8     Miss Smith showed Jimmy her costume. Jimmy said, "Your costume has bones!"
 
9     "That's right," she said.

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