Text Leveling System

Library

RDQ:	386	Max Word/Sent	26	Total Words	444		Diff Words	220
Lex	600	Ave Word/.Sent	12	Hi Freq occurs	225	50.7%	Hi freq	67	30.5%
AR	2.4	Long Sentences	10.8	Low Freq occurs	17	3.8%	Low freq	17	7.7%

Elizabeth Brown 
Entered the World Dropping straight down from the sky. 
Elizabeth Brown Entered the world Skinny nearsighted and shy. 
She didn't like to play with dolls She didn't like to skate. 
She learned to read quite early And at an incredible rate. 
She always took a book to bed With a flashlight under the sheet. 
She'd make a tent of covers And read herself to sleep. 
Elizabeth Brown Went off to school Dragging a steamer trunk. 
Elizabeth Brown Unpacked her books Breaking the upper bunk. 
She sat in all her classes And doodled on a pad 
Adrift in dream of entering A readers' olympiad. 
She manufactured library cards And checked out books to friends 
Then shocked them with her midnight raids To collect the books again. 
Elizabeth Brown Preferred a book To going on a date. 
While friends went out And danced till dawn She stayed up reading late. 
She took the train one afternoon and promptly lost her way 
So bought a house and settled down To tutoring for pay. 
Elizabeth brown Walked into town Summer fall winter and spring. 
Elizabeth Brown Walked into town Looking for only one thing. 
She didn't want potato chips She didn't want new clothes. 
She went straight to the bookstore. "May I have one of those?" 
Elizabeth Brown Walked right back home And read and read and read. 
She even read while Exercising And standing on her head. 
She made a list of groceries And tucked it in her book 
Then lost the list among the fruits And left with nothing to cook. 
She read about Greek goddesses While vacuuming the floor. 
Attending only to her book She'd walk into a door. 
Books were piled on top of chairs And spread across the floor. 
Her shelves began to fall apart As she read more and more. 
Big books made very solid stacks On which teacups could rest. 
Small books became the building blocks For busy little guests. 
When volumes climbed the parlor walls And blocked the big front door 
She had to face the awful fact She could not have one more. 
Elizabeth Brown Walked into town That very afternoon. 
Elizabeth Brown Walked into town Whistling a happy tune. 
She didn't want a bicycle She didn't want silk bows. 
She went straight to the courthouse - "May I have one of those?" 
The form was for donations. She quickly wrote this line: "I E. Brown give to the town 
All that was ever mine." Elizabeth Brown Free Library 
Elizabeth Brown moved in with a friend 
And lived to a ripe old age. 
They walked to the library Day after day And turned page... after page... after page.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social

Features

Rhyming

Topic

Books

Shopping

Libraries

*Feelings, Behaviors

Reading

Low Frequency Words

adrift	courthouse	doodled	goddesses	groceries
incredible	manufactured	nearsighted	olympiad	parlor
preferred	promptly	shelves	tutoring	vacuuming
volumes	whistling