Text Leveling System

Mouse Paint

RDQ:	173	Max Word/Sent	27	Total Words	242		Diff Words	87
Lex	240	Ave Word/.Sent	10	Hi Freq occurs	104	43%	Hi freq	28	32.2%
AR	1.8	Long Sentences	8.7	Low Freq occurs	3	1.2%	Low freq	1	1.1%

Once there were three white mice on a white piece of paper. 
The cat couldn't find them. One day while the cat was asleep the mice saw three jars of paint - one red one yellow and one blue. They thought is was Mouse Paint. They climbed right in. Then one was red one was yellow and one was blue They dripped puddles of paint onto the paper. The puddles looked like fun. The red mouse stepped into a yellow puddle and did a little dance. His red feet stirred the yellow puddle until ..."Look" he cried. "Red feet in a yellow puddle make orange!" The yellow mouse hopped into a blue puddle. His feet mixed and stirred and stirred and mixed until..."Look down" said the red mouse and the blue mouse. "Yellow feet in a blue puddle make green." Then the blue mouse jumped into a red puddle.  He splashed and mixed and danced until..."Purple!" they all shouted. "Blue feet in a red puddle make purple.!" But the paint on their fur got sticky and stiff. So they washed themselves down to a nice soft white and painted the paper instead. They painted one part red and one part yellow and one part blue. They mixed red and yellow to paint an orange part yellow and blue to paint  a green part and blue and red to paint a purple part. But they left some white because of the cat.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Simple

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Topic

Painting

Colors

Cats

Dance/Dancing

Mice

*Arts & Crafts

Low Frequency Words

stirred