Text Leveling System

Ride, Fly Guy, Ride

RDQ:	175	Max Word/Sent	16	Total Words	259		Diff Words	111
Lex	260	Ave Word/.Sent	5	Hi Freq occurs	103	39.8%	Hi freq	39	35.1%
AR	1.8	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	6	2.3%	Low freq	3	2.7%

A boy had a pet fly. He named him Fly Guy. And Fly Guy could say the boy's name Buzz.]]
Chapter 1. One day, Dad said, "Who wants to go for a ride?"]]
"We Do!" said Buzz and Fly Guy.]]
"Everyone buckle up!" Dad said.]]
Then they hit the road with the windows down.]]
Buzz stuck his hand out the window and pretended it was an airplane.]]
Suddenly, wind blew in the car and carried Fly Guy out of the window.]]
and into a passing truck.]]
Chapter 2. "Follow that truck!" cried Buzz.]]
Meanwhile, in the truck, Fly Guy tumbled into the truck driver's mouth.]]
The truck driver spit Fly Guy out the window ]]
and into a passing motorboat.]]
"Follow that boat!" cried Buzz. Meanwhile, on the boat, Fly Guy saw a man put a bug on a big hook.]]
Fly Guy jumped overboard ]]
and onto a passing circus train.]]
"Follow that train!" cried Buzz.]]
Meanwhile, on the train, Fly Guy surprised a sleepy elephant.]]
The elephant blew him of the train ]]
and onto an airplane.]]
"Follow that airplane!" cried Buzz.]]
Meanwhile, on the airplane, the pilot saw Fly Guy and turned on the wipers.]]
"Follow that I mean, follow Fly Guy!" cried Buzz.]]
Just then, a rocket roared up from the ground.]]
Chapter 3.
"Follow that rocket!" cried Buzz.]]
Buzz and Dad landed. The rocket raced into space. "Will Fly Guy survive? asked Buzz.]]
"Fly Guy, you're here!" cried Buzz. "The rocket didn't take you to space!"]]
Dad said, "Let's ride home." and Fly Guy said more Rides.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Moderate support

Dialog: Two speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Chapters

Features

Topic

Trains

*Transportation

Flight/Flying

Airplanes

Rockets

Low Frequency Words

meanwhile

overboard

survive