Text Leveling System

Trains

RDQ:	164	Max Word/Sent	15	Total Words	214		Diff Words	100
Lex	200	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	103	48.1%	Hi freq	31	31%
AR	1.7	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	13	6.1%	Low freq	7	7%

Choo! Choo! Choo! Out of the roundhouse steams the engine and the tender. We're off! Let's pick up the freight cars loaded for a long trip.]]
Back up, Back up bangety bump! Pick up the hopper that carries the coal.]]
Then up the track, clickety-clack! Hitch on the flatcar with the great big logs.]]
Choo! Choo! Choo! Pick up the tank car that carries milk to the city.]]
Slowly, slowly we're moving along. Hitch on the cattle car with animals for the zoo.]]
Up and back, up and back clickety clack! Put on the flatcar with the long iron pipes.]]
Here's the gondola car. It carries gravel for a new road being built far away. Back up bang! It's on.]]
The train is getting longer and longer. Back up again bangety bang to pick up the car that carries five new automobiles.]]
The last car on the long freight train is the red caboose. It is like a little house, and the trainmen eat and sleep here. See the windows in the roof where the trainmen look out over the track.]]
Now the engine has picked up all the loaded freight cars. Choo! Choo! Choo! Clickety clack! Clickety Clack! Off they go up the track! The brakeman is waving good by to you.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Captions/Simple

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Onomatopoeia

Topic

Trains

*Transportation

Low Frequency Words

bangety	caboose	carries	freight	gondola
gravel	roundhouse