Text Leveling System

Mighty Spiders!

RDQ:	263	Max Word/Sent	14	Total Words	182		Diff Words	116
Lex	520	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	55	30.2%	Hi freq	27	23.3%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	16	8.8%	Low freq	15	12.9%

Spiders up.]]
Spiders down.
Mighty spiders all around!]]
Eight strong legs.
Tough hard skin.
Silky webs to scurry in.]]
Spiders anywhere you please-
on the ground
and high in trees.]]
Underwater 
sand]]
and stone.
Spiders creeping in your home.]]
Green and yellow.
Flashy pink.]]
White like snowflakes.
Black like ink.]]
Spider stripes 
and starry thorns.]]
Spider hearts
and spider horns.]]
Six eyes
eight eyes
large and small.]]
Spiders with no eyes at all.]]
Spiders small as grains of sand.]]
Spiders bigger than your hand.]]
Spiders spin a silky thread-
a thread that sometimes 
makes a web.
Webs in tangles.]]
Webs in wheels.
Webs for catching
spider meals-]]
a moth a wasp a juicy fly.
Any bug that wanders by.]]
Other spiders stalk and hunt
doing mighty spider stunts.
Spiders hiding]]
spiders creeping
spiders diving]]
spiders leaping.]]
Snatching insects birds or frogs]]
lizards fish
or pollywogs.]]
Mothers make a silk cocoon.
Tiny eggs inside hatch soon.
Babies crawling from their sac.]]
Babies riding piggyback.
Babies shedding too-small skin.]]
Babies blowing in the wind.]]
Spiders up and spiders down.
Mighty spiders all around.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Features

Topic

Spiders

*Animals

Insects

Low Frequency Words

cocoon	crawling	piggyback	pollywogs	sac
scurry	shedding	snatching	stalk	stunts
tangles	thread	underwater	wanders	wasp