Decodable non-fiction passages - Sod Cabins

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Sod Cabins

It is the spring of 1880. A family travels across America. They travel in a wagon. An ox pulls the wagon. The family must stop and rest. A cabin will be splendid. But there is not a lot of stuff to craft a cabin with. If there are not trees to cut, the family will cut sod.

What is sod? Sod is grass, with the land that it is planted in. There is plenty of sod to cut. Sod is cut with an axe. Men cut the land and pull up sod.

Bricks are cut from the sod. The family crafts a cabin from the bricks. They will stop the cabin from getting wet. They put mud on the sod cabin. The mud gets solid in the sun. It is damp in the sod cabin. But it was fast to craft. And it is snug.

(Spache: 2.46)