Text Leveling System

Big Red Barn

RDQ:	254	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	329		Diff Words	147
Lex	510	Ave Word/.Sent	9	Hi Freq occurs	188	57.1%	Hi freq	42	28.6%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	2.8	Low Freq occurs	11	3.3%	Low freq	9	6.1%

There was a pink pig Who was learning to squeal. 
There was a great big horse and a very little horse. 
And on every barn is a weather vane of course - A golden flying horse. 
There was a big pile of hay And a little pile of hay And that is where the children play. 
But in this story the children are away. Only the animals are here today. 
The sheep and the donkey The geese and the goats 
Were making funny noises Down in their throats. 
An old scarecrow 
Was leaning on his hoe. 
And a field mouse was born 
In a field of corn. 
Cock-a-doodle-doooo! 
In the barn there was a rooster 
And a pigeon too.
 And a big white hen Standing on one leg. 
And under the hen was a quiet egg. There was a bantam rooster And a little bantam hen With a big clutch of eggs. Count them. There are ten. Cock-a-doodle-doooo! Moooo! Moo! There was a big brown cow And a little brown cow. There was an old black cat Meow! Meow! And a tiger tomcat Yeow! Yeow! There was a big red dog Bow! Wow! With some little puppy dogs All round and warm. And they all lived together in the big red barn. And they played all day in the grass and in the hay. When the sun went down in the great green field The big cow lowed The little pig squealed. The horses stomped in the sweet warm hay And the little donkey gave one last bray. The hens were sleeping on their nests. Even the rooster took a rest. The little black bats flew away Out of the barn at the end of the day. And there they were all night long Sound asleep In the big red barn. Only the mice were left to play Rustling and squeaking in the hay While the moon sailed high In the dark night sky.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Features

Topic

Sound/Sounds

Sleep

*Animals

Farms

Barns

Night

Noises

Low Frequency Words

bantam	lowed	pigeon	rustling	scarecrow
squealed	tomcat	vane	yeow