Text Leveling System

Halloween Hustle

RDQ:	259	Max Word/Sent	20	Total Words	406		Diff Words	199
Lex	520	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	166	40.9%	Hi freq	44	22.1%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	30	7.4%	Low freq	19	9.5%

In the dark, a funky beat. Something white with Bony feet. Skeleton dancing up the street. Doing the Halloween hustle.]]
Bony thumbs and fingers snap. Bony heels and toes tip tap. Knees knock knock and elbows flap. Doing the Halloween hustle.]]
Skeleton twists his skinny hips. Shakes his shoulders skates and skips. On a crooked crack, he trips. Bones scatter. What a clatter. Spine is like a broken ladder.]]
Sticks his bones back into place, adds rubber bands, just in case. Gets up and grooves with ghoulish grace. Doing the Halloween hustle.]]
He swings around the bus stop sign once, twice then gets in line right behind Frankenstein, doing the Halloween hustle.]]
Climbs on the bus. Can't find a seat. That's okay. He finds the beat. Shuffles and scuffles those Bony feet, doing the Halloween hustle.]]
The big bus zigzags through the town. Zooms up hills, then cruises down. Every monster for miles around is doing the Halloween hustle.]]
The bus slows down and then it stops. Skeleton leaves with three high hops. Leads the others to the shops, doing the Halloween hustle.]]
Skeleton buys a snazzy hat, a jazzy jacket to go with that. But in his path, a big black cat. Bones scatter. What a clatter. Spine is like a broken ladder.]]
Skeleton doesn't groan or whine. Binds his bones with tape and twine. He bounces up, feeling fine, doing the Halloween hustle.]]
In fancy clothes, the monsters go to the party in a row. A funky, freaky fashion show. During the Halloween hustle.]]
The ghostly host greets each guest, how do you do? You're so well dressed. Just in time for the dance contest, doing the Halloween hustle.]]
Monsters move on through the door. Jump and jive out on the floor. Spooky judges hold up scores for doing the Halloween hustle.]]
Skeletons shimmies, swings, and sways be bops as the music plays but zombies foot gets in the way.]]
Bones scatter. what a clatter. spine is like a broken ladder. A skeleton girl with a friendly smile sweeps the bones up in a pile. Skeleton, hey, and just a while, you'll do the halloween hustle.]]
She uses a bottle of super strong glue. You're fixed forever. You're just like new. Hey, I'd like to dance with you. Let's do the Halloween hustle.]]
All the monsters cheer and clap. Bony thumbs and fingers snap. Bony heels and toes tip tap, doing the Halloween hustle.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Little support

Dialog: Simple

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Rhyming

Present Tense

Topic

Body

Monsters

Dance/Dancing

*Holidays, Events, Cele

Halloween

Low Frequency Words

cruises	fashion	frankenstein	funky	ghostly
ghoulish	grooves	halloween	host	hustle
jive	judges	scuffles	shimmies	shuffles
snazzy	spine	whine	zombies