Sample Text
This is the sample text used to dictate to
the students throughout all the handwritten, typed and voice dictated
tests.
Pat shut the door of the warm kitchen behind
her. FULLSTOP. Outside the air was like ice.FULLSTOP. It took her breath
away for a moment.FULLSTOP.NEW PARAGRAPH.
Pat blew on her hands to warm them.FULLSTOP.
Then she walked across the frosty grass to the pigeon cage that stood
by the back fence. FULLSTOP. NEW PARAGRAPH.
She stood in front of the cage, COMMA watching
the pigeons.FULLSTOP.NEW PARAGRAPH.
There were twelve pigeons.FULLSTOP Some were
grey with long black feathers in their wings.FULLSTOP The others were
brown, COMMA speckled with white.FULLSTOP. NEW PARAGRAPH.
They turned their heads from side to side and
looked at Pat, COMMA first with one dark eye, COMMA then with the other.
FULLSTOP. NEW PARAGRAPH.
The pale winter sun shone through the wire-HYPHEN-netting
and over the nesting-HYPHEN-boxes.FULLSTOP Some of the birds were sitting
on their nests.FULLSTOP The others were walking up and down the cage,
COMMA cooing and bobbing thier heads.FULLSTOP. NEW PARAGRAPH.
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