Text Leveling System

Green Wilma

RDQ:	279	Max Word/Sent	28	Total Words	252		Diff Words	147
Lex	530	Ave Word/.Sent	14	Hi Freq occurs	128	50.8%	Hi freq	45	30.6%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	27.8	Low Freq occurs	3	1.2%	Low freq	3	2%

One morning Wilma woke up green, and
much to her surprise]]
She sat up on her bed and croaked and
started eating flies.]]
She washed, she dressed, she combed her hair,
she quickly made her bed.]]
She hopped down to the breakfast table.
""Pass the bugs,"" she said.]]
""Green children should not go to school,"" 
she heard her mother fuss.]]
But out the window Wilma jumped and
rode off on the bus.]]
In class Green Wilma tried but simply
couldn't keep her seat.]]
In gym while playing dodgeball Wilma
never could be beat.]]
In art the kids thought being green was
absolutely great!]]
But Teacher said, ""The green must be from 
something that she ate.""]]
At story time poor wilma felt so 
hungry she could cry.]]
And then she saw on Teacher's nose a
tasty little fly.]]
She chased it all around the room and
up and down the hall,]]
And through the lunchroom (that's the place that 
flies love best of all).]]
The principal yelled, ""Stop her! She should
know we have a rule]]
That children aren't allowed to munch on
flies while they're in school.""]]
Then out the door Green Wilma hopped
into the hills beyond,]]
And finally she caught that fly
up over miller's Pond.]]
Wilma landed in the water
with a noisy splash,]]
She met a very hungry fish...]]
and woke up in a flash.]]
Then she recalled the words they teach to
every little frog,]]
""When you dream, be careful that you
don't fall off the log.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Simple

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Difficult

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Features

Rhyming

Topic

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

absolutely

combed

lunchroom