Text Leveling System

Willy the Wimp

RDQ:	251	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	330		Diff Words	180
Lex	510	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	165	50%	Hi freq	63	35%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	1.8	Low Freq occurs	25	7.6%	Low freq	19	10.6%

Willy wouldn't hurt a fly.  
Willy worried about stepping on tiny insects every time he went for a walk.  When someone knocked into him he always said "Oh I'm sorry!"  Even when it wasn't his fault.  Sometimes when he was out walking the suburban gorilla gang bullied him.  
"Oh I'm sorry!"  said Willy when they hit him.  The suburban gorillas called him Willy the Wimp.  Willy hated that name.  Willy the Wimp!  
One evening when Willy was reading his comic book, he saw...DON'T BE A WIMP! I was a scrawny skinny-chested pathetic weakling.NOW.........I can order people about.......... kick sand in THEIR faces... talk VERY LOUDLY ..... lift heavy things..... get R-E-S-P-E-C-T.  Do YOU want..... Bulging arm muscles.. Tireless legs....... A deep chest...... A large wardrobe.......... A magnetic personality?  MAIL THIS NOW!  
That sounds like just the thing for me thought Willy.  So he sent some money to the address in the advertisement.  He rushed to the door every morning to catch the postman.  
"Oh I'm sorry!" said Willy when the postman brought nothing for him.  But one day a package arrived... This was it!  Willy opened it excitedly.  
Inside was a book:  it told Willy what to do... First some exercises.  Then some jogging.  Willy had to go on a special diet.  He went to aerobics classes where everybody danced to disco music.  Willy felt a bit silly.  
He learned how to box.  And he went to a body-building club.  Willy took up weight lifting and gradually over weeks and months Willy got bigger ... and bigger ... and bigger ... AND BIGGER!  Willy looked in the mirror.  He liked what he saw.  
So when Willy walked down the street and saw the suburban gorillas attacking Millie ... They ran.  
"Oh ... Willy" said Millie.  
"What Millie?" said Willy. 
 "You're my hero Willy" said Millie.  
"Oh ... Millie" said Willy.  
Willy was proud.  "I'm not a wimp!"  I'm a hero!  BANG!  
"Oh I'm sorry!" said Willy.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Inferences: Some implications

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Sequence of Events: Chronological

Features

Character traits

Character development

Simple Plot

Topic

Bullies

Determination

Exercise

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

advertisement	aerobics	bulging	chested	disco
excitedly	fault	gradually	jogging	magnetic
pathetic	personality	postman	scrawny	suburban
tireless	wardrobe	weakling	wimp