Text Leveling System

Hannah's Townspeople

RDQ:	238	Max Word/Sent	15	Total Words	260		Diff Words	146
Lex	500	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	118	45.4%	Hi freq	48	32.9%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	2	Low Freq occurs	4	1.5%	Low freq	4	2.7%

"I'm building the fire station!" said Hannah.
"I'm building the pizza place," said Andy.
Their school project was almost done.
The friends looked at their town.
It had a police station and a school. 
It had an ice cream store, too!
"Now we need some people," said Hannah.
"Mom, can you take us to the store 
to buy people for our town?" asked Hannah.
"Not now, sweetie. I'm making dinner," said her mom.
"Ugghhh!" Hannah groaned.
"We need people!"
Hannah went into her older sister Kate's room.
Kate was playing outside.
Hannah stood on a stool to reach the tiny dolls from around the world.
Then Hannah quickly walked past the kitchen.
"Hannah," said her mom. "You know you can't play with Kate's dolls without asking her first."
"But we need people!" cried Hannah.
"You can use my baby dolls," offered Lucy.
Hannah's three-year-old sister, Lucy, held out two baby dolls.
"Those dolls are too big for our town," pouted Hannah.
"But thanks anyway," she said.
Then Hannah smiled a big smile.
She ran to her room to get her art box.
"Let's MAKE the people!" she shouted.
"Yeah!" agreed Andy.
"I'll make the workers," he said.
"I'll make the shoppers," Hannah said.
The friends colored and cut.
They glued, and they taped.
Glitter, yarn, paper, and cloth
made popsicle sticks become  . . .firefighters, teachers, 
police officers, pizza makers, and ice cream scoopers!
"Neat!" said Lucy.
"Wow!" said Hannah's mom.
"Cool!" said Kate.
"Tomorrow, let's build a zoo and make our own animals," said Andy.
"Great idea!" said Hannah.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Multiple speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Inferences: Some implications

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Additional activities

Features

Simple problem/solution

Topic

*Arts & Crafts

Low Frequency Words

glued

project

scoopers

sweetie