Text Leveling System

Just Me And My Mom

RDQ:	156	Max Word/Sent	20	Total Words	354		Diff Words	171
Lex	200	Ave Word/.Sent	8	Hi Freq occurs	230	65%	Hi freq	70	40.9%
AR	1.7	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	6	1.7%	Low freq	5	2.9%

We went to the city, just me and my mom.
Mom gave me some money to buy tickets for the train.
I wanted to help mom get on the train but the steps were too high. So mom helped me instead.
But when the conductor came by, the tickets were gone. So mom paid the conductor some more money.
The city was very busy. I held mom's hand so she wouldn't be scared.
We went to the museum of natural history. They had rooms full of old dinosaur bones.
I picked up a little dinosaur egg to show my mom. But someone ran up and grabbed it. I wasn't going to hurt it. I tried on some costumes, just for mom. But the museum guard didn't like that.
Then we went next door to the aquarium.
There were lots of fish in a big tank of water.
They had some seals doing a show. Mom got mad because she couldn't find me. I ran up front to get a closer look at the seals.
We went to the art museum, but it only had a lot of weird pictures and I was getting tired.
After that, we went to a very nice restaurant for lunch. We didn't stay, though.
We decided to have a hot dog from a stand. That was more fun anyway.
Mom wanted to go to a big store full of dresses and stuff like that. Yuck.
Mom even made me try on some clothes. She bought me a new suit. Some guy measured me and stuck pins all over my clothes.
We passed by the toys. I found the stuffed animal I always wanted but mom said, it's time to go.
We took a taxi to the train station. I got to ride in the front seat. The taxi driver drove real fast. That was cool.
I let mom by the tickets this time. She said she didn't have enough money to buy more tickets if these got lost. Good idea, mom!
We had fun, just me and my mom. I even stayed awake all the way home-well, almost.

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Features

First Person

Topic

Mothers

Field Trips

*Family & Friends

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

aquarium

conductor

measured

restaurant

weird