Text Leveling System

Where the Wild Things Are

RDQ:	457	Max Word/Sent	79	Total Words	339		Diff Words	138
Lex	620	Ave Word/.Sent	24	Hi Freq occurs	185	54.6%	Hi freq	51	37%
AR	2.6	Long Sentences	50	Low Freq occurs	6	1.8%	Low freq	4	2.9%

The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind]]
and another]]
his mother called him "Wild Thing!" 
and Max said "I'll eat you up!" 
so he was sent to bed without eating anything.]]
That very night in Max's room a forest grew 
and grew - ]]
and grew until his ceiling hung with vines 
and the walls became the world all around 
and an ocean tumbled with a private boat for Max 
and he sailed off through the night and day 
and in and out of weeks 
and almost over a year 
to where the wild things are.]]
And when he came to the place where the wild things are 
they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth 
and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws ]]
till Max said "Be Still!" 
and tamed them with the magic trick]]
of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once 
and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all]]
and made him king of all wild things.]]
"And now" cried Max"let the wild rumpus start!"]]
"Now stop!" Max said and sent the wild things off to bed 
without their supper. And Max the king of all  wild things was lonely 
and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.]]
Then all around from far away across the world  
he smelled good things to eat 
so he gave up being king of where the wild things are.]]
But the wild things cried"Oh please don't go - 
we'll eat you up - we love you so!" 
And Max said"No!"]]
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth 
and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws 
but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye 
and sailed back over a year 
and in and out of weeks 
and through a day]]
and into the night of his very own room 
where he found his supper waiting for him ]]
and it was still hot.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Unconventional format

Dialog: Two speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Colorful, figurative

Sentences: Many Long Complex

Text structure: Difficult

Inferences: Some implications

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Mood/tone

Unconventional punctuation

Unusual use of vocabulary

Topic

Time

Travel/Traveling

Boats

Monsters

Dreams

Foreign Country

Adventures

*Feelings, Behaviors

Pretend

Low Frequency Words

gnashed

mischief

private

rumpus