Text Leveling System

Pigs

RDQ:	211	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	523		Diff Words	154
Lex	470	Ave Word/.Sent	8	Hi Freq occurs	275	52.6%	Hi freq	64	41.6%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	1.7	Low Freq occurs	2	0.4%	Low freq	2	1.3%

Megan's Father asked her to feed the pigs on her way to school.  
He said "Megan please feed the pigs but don't open the gate.  Pigs are smarter than you think.  Don't open the gate."  
"Right" said Megan.  "I will not open the gate.  Not me.  No sir.  No no no no no."  
So Megan went to the pig pen.  She looked at the pigs.  The pigs looked at Megan.  
Megan said "These are the dumbest-looking animals I have ever seen.  They stand there like lumps on a bump.  They wouldn't do anything if I did open the gate."  
So Megan opened the gate just a little bit.  The pigs stood there and looked at Megan.  They didn't do anything.  
Then Megan yelled "HEY YOU DUMB PIGS!"  
The pigs jumped up and ran right over Megan WAP-WAP-WAP-WAP-WAP and out the gate.  
Megan opened the front door and yelled "HEY YOU DUMB PIGS!"  
The pigs jumped up and ran right over Megan WAP-WAP-WAP-WAP-WAP and out the door and into the pig pen.  Megan looked at them and said "You are still dumb like lumps on a bump."  
Then she ran off to school.  
Just as she was about to open the front door she heard a sound: "OINK OINK OINK."  
She said "That doesn't sound like my teacher.  That doesn't sound like the principal.  That sounds like pigs.  Megan looked in the principal's window.  There was a pig drinking the principal's coffee.  A pig was eating the principal's newspaper.  And a pig was peeing on the principal's shoe.  The principal yelled "Megan get these pigs out of here!"  Megan opened the front door of the school and yelled "HEY YOU DUMB PIGS!"  The pigs jumped up and ran right over Megan WAP-WAP-WAP-WAP-WAP and out the door.  Megan ran to her desk and said "That's that!  I finally got rid of all these pigs."  Then she heard a noise:  "OINK OINK OINK."  Megan opened her desk and there was a new baby pig.  The teacher said "Megan!  Get that dumb pig out of here!"  Megan said "Dumb?  Who ever said pigs were dumb?  Pigs are smart.  I am going to keep it for a pet."  At the end of the day the school bus finally came.  Megan walked up to the door then heard something say "OINK OINK OINK."  Megan said "That doesn't sound like the bus driver.  That sounds like a pig."  She climbed up the steps and looked in the bus.  There was a pig driving the bus pigs eating the seats and pigs lying in the aisle.  A pig shut the door and drove the bus down the road.  It drove the bus all the way to Megan's farm through the barnyard and right into the pig pen.  Megan got out of the bus walked across the barnyard and marched into the kitchen.  She said "The pigs are all back in the pig pen.  They came back by themselves.  Pigs are smarter than you think."  
And Megan never let out any more animals.  At least not any more pigs.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Character traits

Topic

*Animals

Behaviors

*Feelings, Behaviors

Responsibility

Low Frequency Words

aisle

dumbest