Something for a Song and a Dance

¹     Doug and Donny went to town with their mother. Donny had a nickel. Doug had a dime. They saw a gumball machine. Each gumball cost a quarter. Donny asked his mother for some money. She dug in the bottom of her purse. She only found a nickel. Now, they had twenty cents. This was not enough to buy a gumball. They needed enough money so they each could have a gumball.

²     Donny asked Doug, "How could we get thirty cents?"

³     Doug said, "I have an idea!"

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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 1 to 2
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	3.06

	challenging words:		town, cards, went, mother, along, another, baseball, bottom, bread, butter, cost, dime, each, enough, idea, instead
	content words:		Then Doug, Are My Sunshine, Tommy Tucker, Goose Nursery Rhyme-

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