RIC-6946 The Comprehension Box 1 - Sample student cards

Brown 8
Bad boy, Butch
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‘Butch! Stop digging!’ I yelled from
inside. It was no use. Butch, my
dog, was born to dig. He loved it.
He dug up plants. He dug huge
holes in the ground. He dug in
grass, sand and mud. If there
were a world championship for
digging, Butch would win!
I went outside and called Butch. ‘You’ll get me into trouble!’ I told him.
‘I might even have to find you a new home!’ Butch looked at me with
his happy eyes. His tongue flopped out of his mouth and he licked my
face. Yuck!
I turned around to go back inside. Butch turned around to go back to
his hole. Naughty dog! I would have to chain him up. I went over to get
him—and then I saw his latest hole.
It was HUGE! His deepest ever. I looked down and could just see the
bottom. Butch was down there … digging and scratching fast.
‘Butch! Get out of there!’ I called. Butch kept going. He was trying to get
something. Then he grabbed something with his jaws. He scrambled to
the top of the hole looking very pleased with himself. And he dropped
that something at my feet.
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It was a dirty white bone. A very big, dirty white bone. I had no idea
what it was. So I took it inside to show Mum. Mum had no idea what it
was. She showed it to Dad. He had no idea, either. So we took it to the
museum. And guess what it turned out to be? A dinosaur bone! Butch
had found a dinosaur in our backyard!
The museum people dug up our backyard to find a whole dinosaur
skeleton. It was a new kind of dinosaur. They named it ‘Butchosaurus’,
after Butch. Our garden is a big mess now, so we just let Butch dig. Who
knows what he might find next!
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