Text Leveling System

Red Fox Running

RDQ:	538	Max Word/Sent	36	Total Words	295		Diff Words	174
Lex	640	Ave Word/.Sent	18	Hi Freq occurs	128	43.4%	Hi freq	46	26.4%
AR	2.8	Long Sentences	31.3	Low Freq occurs	26	8.8%	Low freq	23	13.2%

Red fox running
Running through the snow
White sky above
And white earth below.
Winter should be over
But it didn't go away.
Hunger runs beside you
On this cold and frozen day.]]
Red fox stopping
Looking up to see
A woodpecker out of reach
High in a tree
Whooper swans huddled
Where the lake shines through
An eagle silent in the air
His shadow silent too.]]
Red fox hungry fox
Listening to hear
The scrabble scrabble scrabble
Of a white-tailed deer
The rustle of the cranes
As they lift into the sky
The sad lonely echo
Of a last loon's cry.]]
Red fox starving fox
Desperate to find
A rabbit or a rodent
Food of any kind.
Night is coming fast now
The world is turning gray
Edges blur and darkness crawls
Along the end of day.]]
Red fox weary fox
Slinking down to creep
Low in the hollow
Where the snow lies deep
Wary of a wildcat
That's belly-creeping too -
A fast and famished wildcat
That may be watching you!]]
Red fox joyous fox
Sniffing what you've found
Dragging it behind you
Along the frosty ground.
Your paws are raw and bleeding
Your body's sore and spent.
You stumble round in circles
At last you find your scent.]]
The lake of ice is shining
The moon's an orange glow
The falling stars are streaking of flame
So far so far to go.
But here's a rock
A stump of tree
A smell you recognize.
You find new strength to stagger on
To hurry with your prize.]]
Red fox red fox
Crawl into your den.
Food for you 
Your mate and cubs
Eat your fill and then
All curled together
In a warm furry heap
Sleep safely red fox
Sleep sleep sleep.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Colorful, figurative

Sentences: Many Long Complex

Text structure: Difficult

Inferences: Some implications

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Integral Setting

Figurative Language

Rhyming

Topic

Winter

Foxes

Food Chain

Snow

Nature

*Animals

Animals: Forest

*Habitats/Environments

Low Frequency Words

blur	curled	echo	edges	famished
furry	hollow	hunger	joyous	loon's
recognize	rodent	rustle	scent	scrabble
slinking	streaking	swans	wary	weary
whooper	wildcat	woodpecker