Tyrone's Tricky Training

Tyrone’s Tricky Training is a recount by a girl whose couch-potato father refuses to exercise.  His family tries without success to persuade him to move, but the narrator does the trick by getting him to go for a five-minute walk – which she spins out to an hour.  Before the five-minute walk can begin, they have to walk to the park …  The story is told in dialogue and first-person narrative.

The story has a problem-solution structure.  The text is composed of a variety of sentence types.  Illustrations support the text but not all events are illustrated.  Quotation marks and exclamation marks are used.  Boldface and italic are used for emphasis.  Italic is used for a video title.  The book concludes with a two-page spread explaining the characteristics of a recount.

Some words may require clarification: fit, nagging, stopwatch, supersonic, impressed.  The adjectives thirty-minute and five-minute are used.

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