Text Leveling System

Fox in Socks

RDQ:	351	Max Word/Sent	43	Total Words	848		Diff Words	231
Lex	580	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	317	37.4%	Hi freq	72	31.2%
AR	2.3	Long Sentences	2	Low Freq occurs	27	3.2%	Low freq	13	5.6%

Fox Socks Box Knox
Knox in box. Fox in socks. Knox on fox in socks in box. Socks on Knox and Knox in box. Fox in socks on box on Knox. Chicks with bricks come. Chicks with blocks come. Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come. Look sir. Look sir. Mr. Knox sir. Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks sir. Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks sir. First I'll make a quick trick brick stack. Then I'll make a quick trick block stack. You can make a quick trick chick stack. You can make a quick trick clock stack. And here's a new trick Mr. Knox...Socks on chicks and chicks on fox. Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks. Bricks and blocks on Knox on box. Now we come to ticks and tocks sir. Try to say this Mr. Knox sir...Clocks on fox tick. Clocks on Knox tock. Six sick bricks tick.  Six sick chicks tock. Please sir. I don't like this trick sir. My tongue isn't quick or slick sir. I get all those ticks and clocks sir mixed up with the chicks and tocks sir. I can't do it Mr. Fox sir.  I'm so sorry Mr. Knox sir. Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say...New socks. Two socks. Whose socks? Sue's socks. Who sews whose socks? Sue sews Sue's socks. Who sees who sew whose new socks sir? You see Sue sew Sue's new socks sir. That's not easy Mr. Fox sir. Who comes? ... Crow comes. Slow Joe Crow comes. Who sews crow's clothes? Sue sews crow's clothes. Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes? Sue's clothes. Sue sews socks of fox in socks now. Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now. Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes. Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose. Hose goes. Rose grows. Nose hose goes some. Crow's rose grows some. Mr. Fox! I hate this game sir. This game makes my tongue quite lame sir. Mr. Knox sir what a shame sir. We'll find something new to do now. Here is lots of new blue goo now. New goo. Blue goo. Gooey. Gooey. Blue goo. New goo. Gluey. Gluey. Gooey goo for chewy chewing! That's what that Goo-Goose is doing. Do you choose to chew goo too sir? If sir you sir choose to chew sir with the Goo-Goose chew sir. Do sir. Mr. Fox sir I won't do it. I can't say it. I won't chew it. Very well sir. Step this way. We'll find another game to play. Bim comes Ben comes. Bim brings Ben broom. Ben brings Bim broom. Ben bends Bim's broom. Bim bends Ben's broom. Bim's bends. Ben's bends. Ben's bent broom breaks. Bims bent broom breaks. Ben's band. Bim's band. Big bands. Pig bands. Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms. Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms. Pig band! Boom Band! Big band! Broom band! My poor mouth can't say that. No sir. My poor mouth is much too slow sir. Well then...bring your mouth this way. I'll find it something it can say. Luke luck likes lakes. Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes. I can't blab such blibber blubber! My tongue isn't made of rubber. Mr. Knox. Now come now. Come now. You don't have to be so dumb now...Try to say this Mr. Knox please...Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze. Stop it! Stop it! That's enough sir. I can't say such silly stuff sir. Very well then Mr. Knox sir. Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles...What do you know about tweetle beetles? Well...When tweetle beetles fight it's called a tweetle beetle battle. And when they battle in a puddle it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle. And when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle. And...When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle. And...When beetles fight the battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.  And...Now wait a minute Mr. Socks Fox! When a fix is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle This is what they call...a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks sir! Fox in socks our game is done sir. Thank you for a lot of fun sir. Now is your tongue numb?]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Moderate support

Several repetitions of phrases or refrains

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Rhyming

Unconventional punctuation

Unusual use of vocabulary

Topic

Storytelling

Challenges

Clothes

Teasing

Rhyme

Words

*Animals

Low Frequency Words

blibber	duddled	freezy	fuddled	gluey
gooey	knox	muddle	muddled	numb
paddled	tweetle	wuddled