Text Leveling System

There's a Square

RDQ:	179	Max Word/Sent	26	Total Words	209		Diff Words	107
Lex	290	Ave Word/.Sent	7	Hi Freq occurs	113	54.1%	Hi freq	44	41.1%
AR	1.8	Long Sentences	3.6	Low Freq occurs	16	7.7%	Low freq	7	6.5%

Where's a square?]]
Here's a square!
There's one there...
and one there!]]
Find some squares to share.]]
A circle is round.
Look around...
look around![[
Show me circles you've found.]]
A triangle...
see?
has three sides...
one, two, three!]]
Count triangles with me.]]
See the rectangle
song.
Two sides short...
two sides long.]]
Ring the rectangle gong!]]
An oval,
you know
looks a lot like an o.]]
Here's a great oval show!]]
Now the diamond
will be
the last shape
that we'll see.
Find some diamonds for me.]]
How well you have done!
Let's just take one last look
at a few of the things that we've
found in this book.
And we'll see what we've learned
about shapes here and there.]]
About triangle, rectangle, circle, and square.]]
About diamonds with stripes
and some circles with spots.
And oval with flowers...
this oval has lots.]]
A square that is plaid
and a rectangle blue,
next to yellow triangles.
I see them, do you?]]
It's fun to learn shapes
and we know quite a few.]]
We have learned all their names
and the way they look, too.]]
And we've learned one thing more...
Any place we may be,]]
we can find all these shapes...
in the things that we see!]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Features

Topic

Shapes

Observation

*Arts & Crafts

*Math

Low Frequency Words

diamond	diamonds	oval	plaid	rectangle
triangle	triangles