Text Leveling System

Rise and Shine!

RDQ:	266	Max Word/Sent	12	Total Words	288		Diff Words	119
Lex	520	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	124	43.1%	Hi freq	26	21.8%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	15	5.2%	Low freq	9	7.6%

Cock-a-doodle Cock-a-doodle Cock-a-doodle-doo! 
Sun's up! Sun's up! And so are you. 
Puppy dog Puppy dog How will you talk? With a ruff ruff ruff and a wigwagging walk. 
Wooly Lamb Wooly Lamb How will you play? Friskily friskily on this spring day. 
Kitty Cat Kitty Cat How will you nap? Cozy and warm Curled up on a lap. 
What will you wear? Marmalade fur. 
What will you say? Purr purr purr. 
Lucky Duck Lucky Duck How will you speak? With a quack quack quack And a flap of my feet. 
Ladybug Ladybug Where will you fly? Off summer flowers And into the sky. Squeaky Mouse Squeaky Mouse How will you eat? Nibbling nibbling On something sweet. What will you play? Hide and peek. What will you say? Squeak squeak squeak. Piggy pig Piggy pig What will you wear? A curl in my tail And mud in my hair. Skitter Squirrel Skitter Squirrel How will you eat? Crr-racking Crr-racking Nuts with my teeth. Pokey Snail Pokey snail How will you talk? With a shhh shhh shhh On my autumn walk. Where will you crawl? Way down low. How will you move? Slow slow slow. Nuzzle Horse Nuzzle Horse Where will you go? To my winter barn When the cold winds blow. Lovey Dove Lovey Dove What will you say? coo-oo coo-oo coo-oo At the end of the day. Cuddle Chick Cuddle Chick Where will you rest? In the fresh warm hay I make my nest. What will you say? Peep peep peep. Until the morning Good night! Good sleep Cock-a-doodle Cock-a-doodle Cock-a-doodle-doo! Sun's up! Sun's up! And so are you!]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Several repetitions of phrases or refrains

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Rhyming

Topic

Sound/Sounds

Talking

Questions

*Animals

Farms

Habitat

Low Frequency Words

curled	friskily	lovey	marmalade	nuzzle
racking	skitter	wigwagging	wooly