Text Leveling System

Stitches

RDQ:	169	Max Word/Sent	14	Total Words	330		Diff Words	115
Lex	210	Ave Word/.Sent	4	Hi Freq occurs	186	56.4%	Hi freq	50	43.5%
AR	1.7	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	5	1.5%	Low freq	1	0.9%

"I fell! I fell" cried Jon. "My head is bleeding! My head is bleeding!"
 "Let me see your head" said Jon's mother.
 "It's bleeding! It's bleeding!" cried Jon. 
Jon's mother put a bandage around his head. 
Then she took his hand and said "I want the doctor to see you." 
"You need stitches" said the doctor. 
"I don't want stitches!" cried Jon. 
"But you need stitches" said the doctor. "If I put in stitches then you'll only have a little scar." 
"Can you lie still - very still?" asked the doctor. "Your mother can hold your hand. 
"Will it hurt?" asked Jon. "I'll give you a shot so it won't hurt" said the doctor. 
"I don't want a shot!" cried Jon. 
"But I can't sew if I'm hurting you" said the doctor. 
So Jon got a shot. Ouch!  
The doctor put in six stitches. 
One...two...three...four...five..."Six!" said the doctor. "All done!" 
"I want to go home" said Jon. "I want to go right now!" 
"But you need a bandage" said the doctor. "Then you can go home." 
Jon was quiet in the car. He didn't talk to his mother. He wanted to get home. He wanted to get to bed. Jon lay in his bed. 
"I don't like blood!" he said. "And I don't like shots! And I don't like stitches!" 
"Would you like chicken soup?" asked his mother. 
"No!" said Jon. 
"Would you like ice cream?" asked his mother. 
"No!" said Jon. 
"I don't know what you would like" said Jon's mother. "Please tell me." 
"I'd like to see my friends" said Jon. 
"Okay!" said his mother. "I'll call them." 
Jon's friends came over. 
"What happened?" they asked. 
Jon was happy to tell them. "I fell off my bike" said Jon. "There was blood everywhere! I had to see a doctor." 
"I got a shot! I didn't cry! I lay still! I got six stitches."
 "And do you know what - I'll always have a little scar!"]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Inferences: Some implications

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Features

Topic

Body

Mothers

Elaboration

Bicycles

Sewing

Doctors

Accidents

*Human Body & Health

Low Frequency Words

stitches