Crazy Wheels

Crazy Wheels is an informational text describing the astonishing number of uses people have found for wheels, from unicycles to spinning wheels to Ferris wheels to water wheels.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

Most of the sentences are short and similar in structure.  A few sentences begin with a dependent clause followed by a comma.  Labelled photographs match the text directly.  Labelled diagrams explain how water wheels and fish wheels work. The book concludes with an index.

The high frequency words are making, around, and so.  Interest words include wool, motor, and turtle.  The positional words are on, around, into, up, onto, and in.  The compound words are into and onto.

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