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A Super Special Soup

A Reading A–Z Read-Aloud Book
Consonant S • Word Count: 276
A Super
Special Soup

Written by Joe Slade • Illustrated by A. Spencer

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 A Super WORDS USED IN THIS BOOK
High utility words:
1–100 the, I, for, to, you, on, and, it, his, of, that,

Special Soup a, in, is, with, be, then, all, some, go, my,
can, so, like, not, one, will, this, now, into,
no, just, come, your, if
101–200 by, make, think, six, stop, seven, better, hot
S words:
school, since, Saturday, supper, stew, super, spicy
special, secret, soup, stir, sorts, stuff, sweet, sticky, smelly,
stinky, stick, sized, saucepan, simmer, slowly, smells,
strong, sniff, sneeze, start, steaming, salty, stock, sprinkle,
scoops, scrambled, slugs, sixty, seconds, squashed,
snails, seems, sour, spoonfuls, sugar, syrup, sixteen,
slices, salami, seventeen, Spanish, sausage, slimy, snake,
seventy, slippery, squid, sound, snack, Swedish, sardines,
Scottish, smoked, salmon, sample, stomach, satisfied, still,
seasoning, squirt, spider’s, spit, stirred, squirrel, sweat,
strained, sister’s, sock, scared, stupendous, silly, story,
spaghetti, small, salad, spongecake, soda safe

A Super Special Soup

A Read-Aloud Book
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Written by Joe Slade
Illustrated by A. Spencer

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There’s no school tomorrow,
since it’s Saturday.
You can come to my house for supper.
My dad will make a stew.
He’ll make his super, spicy,
special, secret soup.
He’ll stir in all sorts of stuff.
Sweet stuff, sticky stuff, smelly stuff,
and super-stinky stuff.
He’ll stick all this stuff in a super-sized
saucepan and simmer it slowly
until it smells so strong that
one sniff will make you sneeze.

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He’ll start with steaming hot,
salty chicken stock.
Then he’ll sprinkle in six scoops
of scrambled slugs.
He’ll stir for sixty seconds
and add seven squashed snails.
If the soup seems to be sour,
he’ll make it sweet by adding
six spoonfuls of sugar and
seven spoonfuls of maple syrup.
Sixteen slices of salami and
seventeen slices of spicy Spanish sausage
will go in next.

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The stew will now be sticky and sweet.
Next to go into the saucepan will be
sixty-six slices of slimy snake
and seventy-seven slippery squid.
Doesn’t this sound like a super snack?
Seven cans of Swedish sardines and
six pounds of Scottish smoked salmon
will then be added to the mix.
Wouldn’t you love to sample this soup?
It will make your stomach so satisfied.

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 I think I’d better stop.
You’re looking quite scared.
This stupendous soup is just a silly story.
Not a bit of it is true.

I cannot stop.
The soup will still need
some special seasoning.
A squirt of spider’s spit will be On Saturday for supper, we’re really
slowly stirred in, followed by having spaghetti and a small salad
some squirrel sweat strained with spongecake and soda.
through my sister’s smelly sock. It’s really quite safe.

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