Text Leveling System

Noisy Nora

RDQ:	206	Max Word/Sent	26	Total Words	204		Diff Words	103
Lex	470	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	91	44.6%	Hi freq	28	27.2%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	6.5	Low Freq occurs	6	2.9%	Low freq	6	5.8%

Jack had dinner early,]]
Father played with Kate,]]
Jack needed burping,]]
So Nora had to wait.]]
First she banged the window,]]
Then she slammed the door,]]
Then she dropped her sister's marbles
on the kitchen floor.]]
""Quiet!"" said her father.
""Hush!"" said her mum.]]
""Nora!"" said her sister,
""Why are you so dumb?""]]
Jack had gotten filthy,]]
Mother cooked with Kate,]]
Jack needed drying off,]]
So Nora had to wait.]]
First she knocked the lamp down,]]
Then she felled some chairs,]]
Then she took her brother's kite]]
And flew it down the stairs.]]
""Quiet!"" said her father.
""Hush!"" said her mum.]]
""Nora!"" said her sister,
""Why are you so dumb?""]]
Jack was getting sleepy,]]
Father read with Kate,]]
Jack needed singing to,]]
So Nora had to wait.]]
""I'm leaving!"" shouted Nora,
""And I'm never coming back!""]]
And they didn't hear a sound
But a tralala from Jack.]]
Father stopped his reading.
Mother stopped her song.]]
""Mercy!"" said her sister,
""Something's very wrong.""]]
No Nora in the cellar.
No Nora in the tub.]]
No Nora in the mailbox
Or hiding in a shrub.]]
""She's left us!"" moaned her mother]]
As they sifted through the trash.]]
""But I'm back again!"" said Nora
with a monumental crash.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Several repetitions of phrases or refrains

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Features

Character traits

Rhyming

Topic

Jealousy

*Family & Friends

*Feelings, Behaviors

Noises

Low Frequency Words

burping	cellar	felled	mercy	monumental
shrub