Text Leveling System

Dr Seuss's ABC

RDQ:	435	Max Word/Sent	22	Total Words	361		Diff Words	213
Lex	620	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	152	42.1%	Hi freq	40	18.8%
AR	2.5	Long Sentences	1.8	Low Freq occurs	34	9.4%	Low freq	33	15.5%

Big A Little a. What begins with A?]]
Aunt Annie's Alligator.]]
Big B Little b]] What begins with B?]]
Barber baby bubbles and a bumblebee.]]
BIG C little c  What begins with C?
Camel on the ceiling.]]
BIG D little d
David Donald Doo dreamed a dozen doughnuts
and a duck-dog, too.]]
ear egg elephant.]]
BIG F little f.
Four fluffy feathers
on a
Fiffer- feffer- feff.]]
Goat girl googoo goggles G.]]
BIG H little h.
Hungry horse. Hay.]]
Hen in a hat. Hooray! Hooray!]]
BIG I little i.]]
Icabod IS itchy. So am I.]]
BIG J little j.
What begins with j?
Jerry Jordan's jelly jar and jam begin that way.]]
Big K little K Kitten. Kangaroo.]]
Kick a kettle. Kite and a king's kerchoo.]]
Big L little l Little Lola Lopp.
Left leg.
Lazy lion licks a lollipop.]]
Big M little m. Many mumbling mice
are making
midnight music
in the moonlight ...
mighty nice]]
BIG N
little n
What begins with those.
Nine new neckties
and a nightshirt
and a nose.]]
o is very useful.
You use it when you say:
"Oscar's only ostrich
oiled
an orange owl today."]]
Painting pink pajamas.
Policeman in a pail.
Peter Pepper's puppy
And now
Papa's in the pail.]]
BIG
little q
What begins with Q?
The quick
Queen of Quincy
and her
quacking quacker-oo.]]
BIG R little r
Rosy Robin Ross. ]]
Rosy's going riding on her red rhinoceros.]]
BIG S little s
Silly Sammy Slick
sipped six sodas
and got
sick sick sick.]]
What begins with T?
Ten tired turtles
on a tuttle-tuttle tree.]]
BIG U little u
What begins with U?
Uncle Ubb's umbrella
and his
underwear, too.]]
BIG V
little v
Vera Violet Vinn
is very very very awful on her violin.]]
Willy Waterloo
washes Warren Wiggin
washing Waldo Woo.]]
X is very useful
if your name is
Nixie Knox.
It also
comes in handy
spelling ax
and extra fox.]]
BIG Y
little y]]
A yawning yellow yak.
Young Yolanda Yorgenson
is yelling on his back.]]
BIG Z
little z
What begins with Z?]]
I do.
I am a
Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz
as you can
plainly see.]]

Subjective Criteria

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Captions/Simple

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Words presented in isolation

Topic

Alphabet

*Language Arts

Low Frequency Words

feff	feffer	fiffer	googoo	icabod
itchy	kerchoo	knox	moonlight	neckties
nightshirt	nixie	oiled	ostrich	pepper's
plainly	quacker	quincy	rosy	rosy's
tuttle	underwear	vera	violin	warren
waterloo	wiggin	yak	yawning	yolanda
yorgenson	zazzer	zizzer