Text Leveling System

Peter's Chair

RDQ:	219	Max Word/Sent	18	Total Words	293		Diff Words	152
Lex	480	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	163	55.6%	Hi freq	62	40.8%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	5	1.7%	Low freq	4	2.6%

Peter stretched as high as he could. 
There! His tall building was finished. 
Crash! Down it came. 
"Shhhh!" called his mother "You'll have to play more quietly. 
Remember we have a new baby in the house." 
Peter looked into his sister Susie's room. His mother was fussing around the cradle. 
"That's my cradle" he thought "and they painted it pink!" 
"Hi Peter" said his father. "Would you like to help paint sister's high chair?" 
"It's my high chair" whispered Peter. 
He saw his crib and muttered "My crib. It's painted pink too." 
Not far away stood his old chair. "They didn't paint that yet!" Peter shouted. 
He picked it up and ran to his room. 
"Let's run away Willie" he said. 
Peter filled a shopping bag with cookies and dog biscuits. 
"We'll take my blue chair my toy crocodile and the picture of me when I was a baby?" 
Willie got his bone. They went outside and stood in front of his house. 
"This is a good place" said Peter. 
He arranged his things very nicely and decided to sit in his chair for a while. 
But he couldn't fit in the chair. He was too big! 
His mother came to the window and called 
"Won't you come back to us Peter dear? We have something very special for lunch." 
Peter and Willie made believe they didn't hear. 
But Peter got an idea. Soon his mother saw signs that Peter was home. 
"That rascal is hiding behind the curtain" she said happily. 
She move the curtain away. But he wasn't there! 
"Here I am" shouted Peter. Peter sat in a grown-up chair. 
His father sat next to him. 
"Daddy" said Peter "let's paint the little chair pink for Susie." 
And they did.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Multiple speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Inferences: Some implications

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Features

Character development

Simple Plot

Topic

Sharing

Growth/Growing

Babies

Family

*Family & Friends

Parents

Relationships

Low Frequency Words

biscuits

curtain

muttered

rascal