Text Leveling System

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

RDQ:	179	Max Word/Sent	41	Total Words	225		Diff Words	106
Lex	290	Ave Word/.Sent	11	Hi Freq occurs	114	50.7%	Hi freq	29	27.4%
AR	1.8	Long Sentences	5.3	Low Freq occurs	4	1.8%	Low freq	3	2.8%

In the light 
of the moon 
a little egg 
lay on a leaf. ]]
On Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg 
came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. ]]
He started to look for some food. ]]
On Monday 
he ate through 
one apple. 
But he was still 
hungry. ]]
On Tuesday 
he ate through 
two pears 
but he was 
still hungry. ]]
On Wednesday 
he ate through 
three plums 
but he was still 
hungry. ]]
On Thursday 
he ate through 
four strawberries 
but he was still 
hungry. ]]
On Friday 
he ate through 
five oranges 
but he was still 
hungry. ]]
On Saturday 
he ate through 
one piece of 
chocolate cake one ice-cream cone one pickle one slice of swiss cheese one slice of salami ]]
one lollipop one piece of cherry pie one sausage one cupcake and one slice of watermelon. 
That night he had a stomachache! ]]
The next day was Sunday again. 
The caterpillar ate through 
one nice leaf 
and after that he felt 
much better. ]]
Now he wasn't hungry any more - and he wasn't a little caterpillar any more. 
He was a big fat caterpillar. ]]
He built a small house called a cocoon around himself. He stayed inside for 
more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon and pushed his way out and ...]]
he was a beautiful butterfly! ]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Moderate support

Several repetitions of phrases or refrains

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Features

Topic

Changes

Butterflies

Caterpillars

Counting

Days of the week

*Animals

Food

Insects

Low Frequency Words

cocoon

salami

watermelon