Text Leveling System

A Dozen Dogs

RDQ:	140	Max Word/Sent	10	Total Words	225		Diff Words	76
Lex	180	Ave Word/.Sent	4	Hi Freq occurs	69	30.7%	Hi freq	20	26.3%
AR	1.5	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	2	0.9%	Low freq	2	2.6%

Chapter 1: 
a Dozen Dogs Two dogs going to the beach. Want to come along? One fat dog. One skinny dog. One white dog. One black dog. One black and white dog. Five dogs going to the beach. Two brown dogs - they look like twins! Three hungry puppies - they like hot dogs! Another five dogs going to the beach. 123456789101112,Twelve dogs at the beach. Dogs meet dogs. Dogs greet dogs. Yakety-yak! A dozen dogs. Chapter 2: Swimming A dozen dogs on a raft. They want to go swimming. Want to come along? Five dogs dive. Splash! Seven dogs on a raft. Five dogs jump. Splash! Now just two dogs on a raft. Ten barking dogs in the water. "Jump in bow-wow! Jump in right now!" What can they do? They can jump together. 123...Jump! No dogs on a raft. A dozen dogs going swimming. See them do the doggy paddle! Chapter 3: Fishing Two dogs going fishing. Want to come along? Two dogs in a boat catching fish. One big fish. One little fish. One spotted fish. One dotted fish. Two dogs catch four fish. Two dogs in a boat catching fish. One fat fish. One skinny fish. Two red fish...twins! Two dogs catch four more fish. 12345678... Eight fish! Two dogs in a boat catching...a whale. Two dogs going swimming. Want to come along?]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Easy

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Topic

Counting

Dogs

Fish

Swimming

Exercise

*Math

Numbers

Low Frequency Words

yak

yakety