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Guide to Analysing Mr. Tickle Reading Passage
| lexical set (key word) | examples in Mr. Tickle passage |
|---|---|
| KIT | it, in, his, Mister Tickle, enormous, did, kitchen, biscuit tin, window, dishes, pretty, children singing, sitting, pictures, quickly, anything, until, whistled, middle, little, didn't, if, ticklish, think, consider |
| DRESS | very, bed, stretched, felt, bedroom, kept, desks, anything, went, then, head, fell, letters, any, already, yourself, well |
| TRAP | having, that, sat, back, (as), blackboard, scratched, apples, Mr Stamp, stand, perhaps |
| STRUT | sunny, other, must, funny, up, hungry, cupboard, upstairs, munched, somebody, another, sudden, jumped, (but), (until), chuckling, just, puddle |
| LOT | on, long, what, washed, along, somebody, stop, shop, doctor, dropped |
| CLOTH | off, across, crossroads |
| FOOT | wood, took, looked, cooked, looking, could, stood, couldn't, butcher, pushes |
| FLEECE | asleep, he, dream, been, reached, teacher, see, policeman, greengrocer, neatly, even, people, creeping |
| BATH | past, fast, laugh, after, path, classroom, chance |
| PALM | half, rather, can’t |
| START | arms, garden, started, armchair |
| NORTH | warm, morning, extraordinary, enormous, door, blackboard, corner |
| THOUGHT | small, yawn, brought, walking, all, drawing, paused, already |
| NURSE | girls, turned, first |
| GOOSE | bedroom, through, soon, school, classroom, duty, who, you, room, new, truly |
| FACE | eight, made, later, day, came, (again), they, way |
| GOAT | woke, so, know, opened, window, open, over, crossroads, greengrocer, postman, home, those |
| GOAL | rolled, old |
| PRICE | like, writing, right |
| PRIZE | side, eyes, wide, inside, smiled, piling, idea |
| MOUTH | house, out, loud, down, sounded, round, shouting, town |
| CHOICE | boys, noisily, pointless |
| NEAR | hear, cheered, nearest, idea |
| SQUARE | stairs, their, air, armchair, beware |
| CURE | sure, poor, (yourself) |
| happY | sunny, very, funny, extraordinary, hungry, somebody, pretty, quickly, noisily, duty, neatly, already, truly |
| lettER | rather, other, Mister Tickle, cupboard, later, after, another, corner, teacher, greengrocer, over, backwards, doctor, butcher, letters, consider |
| commA | idea |
| horsES | dishes, pushes |
| wastED | sounded, started |
| talkING | walking, looking, singing, sitting, drawing, writing, shouting, chuckling, piling, creeping |
| one etc. | one |
| because | because |
| longEST, chickEN, servICE, mallET, villAGE, massIVE etc. | kitchen, biscuit, nearest |
| CONtinue, COMputer etc. | consider |
| EMployment, ENcourage, EXciting etc. | extraordinary |
| privATE, problEM, toilET, hopeLESS, kindNESS etc. | pointless |
| feature | examples in Mr. Tickle passage |
|---|---|
| T | it was, Mister tickle, it made him laugh out loud, that woke him up, sat up, felt hungry, what he did, reached out one, into, took out a biscuit, brought it back, munched his biscuit and looked out of the window, later, set off, pretty, sitting, writing, went right into the teacher, started shouting, went off into the nearest town, duty, neatly, little, letters, that extraordinary long arm |
| H | half, house, hungry, hear, head, home |
| R | rather, dream, very, hungry, reached, brought, across, pretty, classroom, writing, crossroads, greengrocer, rolled, already, room |
| TH | the, other, that, through, another, their, anything, then, think, this |
| L | small, Mr Tickle, felt, children, girls, all, tickled, smiled, whistled, middle, apples, rolled, little, old, puddle, people, already, yourself |
| NG | having a dream, long arms, walking along, singing, sitting at their desks, anything, piling apples, creeping up |
| K | Mr Tickle, woke him up, took out a biscuit, back upstairs, walking, looking, chuckling, think |
| P | asleep, woke him up, sat up in bed, opened, open, stop it, creeping |
| WH | what, whistled |
| linking R | the boys and girls were all sitting, jumped in the air and turned round, tickled the teacher until he started shouting, over and over again, the doctor and the butcher and even old Mr Stamp, if you are in any way ticklish, the door of this room |
| intrusive R | drawing, the idea of all those people |
| syllabic consonant | sudden, middle, little, puddle, couldn't, didn't |
| yod | do you know, duty, new |


