Text Leveling System

How Many How Many How Many

RDQ:	345	Max Word/Sent	20	Total Words	329		Diff Words	198
Lex	570	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	122	37.1%	Hi freq	39	19.7%
AR	2.3	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	30	9.1%	Low freq	25	12.6%

Are you ready? Tell me yes. 
How many HOW MANYs can you guess? ]]
Count them name them ready go!  
How many HOW MANYs do you know? ]]
He is nimble. He is quick.  
How many jump the candlestick? ]]
One 
Jack. ]]
Spiders like to steal her seat.  
How many things does muffet eat?  ]]
Two 
curds and whey. ]]
Here Goldilocks sleeps all alone.  
How many bears are coming home?  
Three 
The mama bear the papa bear and the baby bear. ]]
Snowy cloudy sunny clear.  
How many seasons in a year?  
Four 
winter spring 
summer fall. ]]
Pearl ring gold ring wedding band.  
How many fingers on a hand?  ]]
Five 
Little finger ring finger middle finger 
index finger thumb. ]]
See them hunting on the lawn.  
How many legs do ants walk on?  ]]
Six  
Left fore right fore left middle 
right middle left hind right hind. ]]
Rainbows follow storms in March.  
How many colors in the arch?  ]]
Seven  
Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet.  ]]
Santa flies up up away!  
How many reindeer pull his sleigh?  ]]
Eight 
Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen 
Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen.  ]]
Round and round in space they run.  
How many planets ring the Sun?  ]]
Nine
Mercury Venus Earth 
Mars Jupiter Saturn 
Uranus Neptune Pluto.]]
Call me if you feel alone.  
How many numbers on a phone? ]]
Ten   
Zero one two three four five 
six seven eight nine.  ]]
It's a goal!  The players scream.  
How many on a soccer team?  ]]
Eleven  
Left winger left midfielder 
fullback fullback stopper sweeper 
right winger right midfielder 
striker center goalkeeper. ]]
Holidays are almost here.  
How many months make up a year? ]]
Twelve  
January February March April May June July 
August September October November December.  ]]
Were you counting?  Tell me yes.  
How many HOW MANY's did you guess?  ]]
And were you looking carefully?  
Somewhere did you also see . . . ]]
one Tom Thumb?  
two spiders? 
three blind mice? 
four seashells? 
five red crayons?  
six watermelon seeds? 
seven hats? 
eight gifts? 
nine shooting stars? 
ten kittens? 
eleven flowers? 
twelve hours?]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Rhyming

Topic

Low Frequency Words

curds	donner	fore	goalkeeper	hind
indigo	january	many's	manys	mercury
midfielder	neptune	nimble	pearl	prancer
reindeer	seasons	sleigh	striker	uranus
venus	vixen	watermelon	whey	winger