Text Leveling System

The Dream Book

RDQ:	423	Max Word/Sent	42	Total Words	251		Diff Words	119
Lex	620	Ave Word/.Sent	17	Hi Freq occurs	127	50.6%	Hi freq	32	26.9%
AR	2.5	Long Sentences	21.4	Low Freq occurs	7	2.8%	Low freq	6	5%

Sleep little squirrel and dream your dream
Of nuts that fall
And a lima bean.]]
Sleep little rabbit the carrot grows
All through the garden and under your nose.]]
Sleep little horse the day is over
Endless fields of sweet green clover
Blow about your hoofs.]]
For everyone a world is a wish
For the child the rabbit and the fish
Call it a wish or call it a dream
Of a world that could be as it can seem
Towards such a world first comes the dream.]]
The little bee dreams of hives of honey.]]
The soldier dreams of something funny.]]
The little boy dreams of hammers and nails
And marbles and tops and boats with sails.]]
The little girl dreams of dolls and flowers
And horses and bunnies that hop for hours.]]
The fish must dream of more and more water
Of a lobster's niece and a flounder's daughter.]]
The little bird dreams of an endless song
Sung in the branches all night long.]]
The little mouse dreams of another mouse
And living all warm in a tiny house.]]
For everyone in dream will stray
Hours of the night and some of the day
Think of the world as it can seem
Towards such a world first comes the dream.]]
Night comes on without a sound
A soft dark shadow all around
Bright eyes and flowers all must close
The child's the rabbit's and the rose.]]
Dreaming child what you shall see
Deep in sleep
Might some day be.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Colorful, figurative

Sentences: Many Long Complex

Text structure: Difficult

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Figurative Language

Unconventional punctuation

Topic

Dreams

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

flounder's	lima	lobster's	niece	soldier
towards