Text Leveling System

Swimmy

RDQ:	319	Max Word/Sent	62	Total Words	298		Diff Words	155
Lex	560	Ave Word/.Sent	11	Hi Freq occurs	161	54%	Hi freq	52	33.5%
AR	2.2	Long Sentences	20	Low Freq occurs	12	4%	Low freq	11	7.1%

A happy school of little fish lived in a corner of the sea somewhere.
They were all red.  Only one of them was as black as a mussel shell.
He swam faster than his brothers and sisters.  His name was Swimmy.]]
One bad day a tuna fish, swift, fierce and very hungry, came darting
through the waves.  In one gulp he swallowed all the little red fish.
Only Swimmy escaped.]]
He swam away in the deep wet world.  He was scared, lonely and very sad.

But the sea was full of wonderful creatures, and as he swam from marvel
to marvel.  Swimmy was happy again.
He saw medusa made of rainbow jelly]]
A lobster, who walked about like a water-moving machine]]
Strange fish, pulled by an invisible thread]]
A forest of seaweeds growing from sugar-candy rocks]]
An eel whose tail was almost too far away to remember]]
And sea anemones, who looked like pink palm trees swaying in the wind.]]
Then, hidden in the dark shade of rocks and weeds, he saw a school of
little fish, just like his own.
""Let's go and swim and play and SEE things!"" he said happily.
""We can't,"" said the little red fish.  ""The big fish will eat us all.""
""But you can't just lie there,"" said Swimmy.  ""We must THINK of something.""]]
Swimmy thought and thought and thought.
Then suddenly he said, ""I have it!""
""We are going to swim all together like the biggest fish in the sea!""]]
He taught them to swim close together, each in his own place,]]
And when they had learned to swim like one giant fish, he said, ""I'll be the eye.""]]
And so they swam in the cool morning water and in the midday sun and]]
chased the big fish away.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Multiple speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Some Long/Complex

Text structure: Story/Poem

Concept: Fanciful

Sequence of Events: Chronological

Features

Simple problem/solution

Simple Plot

Topic

Cooperation

Fish

*Animals

Low Frequency Words

anemones	escaped	gulp	invisible	lobster
marvel	medusa	mussel	seaweeds	swallowed
thread	tuna