Typescript Form for Miscue Analysis

Book Title: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Author: Verna Aardema

1. This is the great Kapiti Plain, All fresh and green from the African 1. ______rains – 2. A sea of grass for the ground birds to nest in, And patches of shade for wild creatures to rest in; 3. With acacia trees for giraffes 2. ______to browse on, And grass for the herdsmen to pasture their cows on. 3. ______4. But one year the rains were so very belated, That all of the big wild creatures migrated. 5. Then Ki-pat helped to end that terrible drought 4. ______

- And this story tells how it all came about! 5. ______6. This is the cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the ground on 6. ______

Kapiti Plain. ______7. This is the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain from the 7. ______cloud overhead - 8. The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain. 8. ______9. These are the cows, all hungry and dry, Who mooed for the rain to fall from the sky; 10. To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That 9. ______needed the rain from the cloud overhead – 11. The big, black cloud, 10. ______all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain. 11. ______12. This is Ki-pat, who watched his herd As he stood on one leg, like 12. ______a big stork bird; 13. Ki-pat, whose cows were so hungry and dry,

They mooed for the rain to fall from the sky. 14. To green up the 13. ______grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain from the cloud 14. ______overhead – 15. The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain. 15. ______16. This is the eagle who dropped a feather, A feather that helped to change the weather. 17. It fell near Ki-pat, who watched his herd As 16. ______he stood on one leg, like the big stork bird; 18. Ki-pat, whose cows 17. ______were so hungry and dry, They mooed for the rain to fall from the sky; 18. ______19. To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, That needed the rain 19. ______from the cloud overhead - 20. The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, That shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain. 20. ______21. This is the arrow Ki-pat put together, With a slender stick and an eagle feather; 22. From the eagle who happened to drop a feather, A 21. ______feather that helped to change the weather. 22. ______23. It fell near Ki-pat, who watched his herd As he stood on one leg like the big stork bird; 24. Ki-pat whose cows were so hungry and 23. ______dry, They mooed for the rain to fall from the sky; 25. To green-up the 24. ______grass all brown and dead, That needed the rain from the cloud overhead - 26. The big, black cloud all heavy with rain, that 25. ______shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain. 26. ______27. This is the bow, so long and strong, And strung with a string, a leather thong; 28. A bow for the arrow Ki-pat put together, with a 27. ______slender stick and an eagle feather; 28. ______29. From the eagle who happened to drop a feather, A feather that helped to change the weather. 30. It fell near Ki-pat, who watched 29. ______his herd As he stood on one leg like the big stork bird; 31. Ki-pat whose cows were so hungry and dry, They mooed for the rain to fall 31. ______from the sky; 32. To green-up the grass all brown and dead, That needed the rain from the cloud overhead - 33. The big, black cloud all 32. ______heavy with rain, that shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain. 33. ______34. This was the shot that pierced the cloud And loosed the rain with thunder LOUD! 35. A shot from the bow, so long and strong, And 34. ______strung with a string, a leather thong; 36. A bow for the arrow Ki-pat 35. ______put together, With a slender stick and an eagle feather; 37. From the 36. ______eagle who happened to drop a feather, A feather that helped to change the weather. 37. ______38. It fell near Ki-pat, who watched his herd As he stood on one leg 38. ______like the big stork bird; 39. Ki-pat whose cows were so hungry and 39. ______dry, They mooed for the rain to fall from the sky; 40. To green-up the grass all brown and dead, That needed the rain from the cloud 40. ______overhead - 41. The big, black cloud all heavy with rain, that shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain. 41. ______42. So the grass grew green, and the cattle fat! 43. And Ki-pat got a 42. ______wife and a little Ki-pat – 43. ______

44. Who tends the cows now, and shoots down the rain, 45. When 44. ______

Black clouds shadow Kapiti Plain. 45. ______