Text Leveling System

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

RDQ:	112	Max Word/Sent	21	Total Words	319		Diff Words	57
Lex	150	Ave Word/.Sent	7	Hi Freq occurs	135	42.3%	Hi freq	18	31.6%
AR	1.4	Long Sentences	2.4	Low Freq occurs	5	1.6%	Low freq	4	7%

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. She won't say why.]]
 There was an old lady who swallowed a spider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.]]
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. She won't say why.]]
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird. How absurd, to swallow a bird.]]
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.]]
I don't know why she swallowed a fly. She won't say why.]]
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat. Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.]]
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.]]
I don't know why she swallowed a fly. She won't say why.]]
There was an old lady who swallowed a dog. ]]
What a hog! To swallow a dog.]]
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat. She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.]]
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. She won't say why.]]
There was an old lady who swallowed a goat. Just opened the her throat and swallowed a goat.]]
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog.]]
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.]]
 She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.]]
 She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.]]
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.]]
I don't know why she swallowed a fly. She won't say why.]]
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow. I don't know how she swallowed that cow.]]
But swallowing the animals is not how this ends, because she coughed so hard ]]
out flew all her new friends!]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: High support

Repeated patterns in cumulative form

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Captions/Simple

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Topic

Puzzles

*Animals

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

absurd

swallow

swallowed

swallowing

wriggled