Text Leveling System

ish

RDQ:	288	Max Word/Sent	19	Total Words	298		Diff Words	167
Lex	530	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	143	48%	Hi freq	63	37.7%
AR	2.2	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	19	6.4%	Low freq	15	9%

Ramon loved to draw.]]
Anytime.]]
Anything. Anywhere.]]
One day, Ramon was drawing a vase of flowers. His brother, Leon, leaned over his shoulder.]]
Leon burst out laughing. What is that? he asked.]]
Ramon could not even answer. He just crumpled up the drawing and threw it across the room.]]
Leon's laughter haunted Ramon. He kept trying to make his drawings look right, but they never did.]]
After many months and many crumpled sheets of paper, Ramon put his pencil down. I'm done.]]
He was about to yell but fell silent when he saw his sister's wall. He stared at the crumpled gallery.]]
This is one of favorites. Marisol said, pointing. That was supposed to be a vase of flowers, Ramon said. but it doesn't look like one. Well, it looks vase ish! she exclaimed.]]
Vase ish? Ramon looked closer. Then he studied all the drawings on Marisol's wall and began to see them in a whole new way. They do look ish, he said.]]
Ramon felt light and energized. Thinking ish ly allowed his ideas to flow freely. He began to draw what he felt loose lines. Quickly springing out. Without worry.]]
Ramon once again drew and drew the world around him. Making an ish drawing felt wonderful.]]
He filled his journals. tree ish house ish boat ish afternoon ish fish ish sun ish.]]
Ramon realized he could draw ish feelings too. peace ish silly ish excited ish.]]
His ish art inspired ish writing. He wasn't sure if he was writing poems, but he knew they were poem ish.]]
One spring morning, Ramon had a wonder feeling. It was a feeling that even ish words and ish drawings could not capture. He decided not to capture it. Instead, he simply savored it.]]
And Ramon lived ishfully ever after.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Inferences: Some implications

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Character traits

Clear cause/effect

Topic

Writing

Drawing

*Arts & Crafts

Imagination

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

energized	haunted	inspired	journals	laughter
leon's	marisol	marisol's	peace	poem
poems	ramon	savored	springing	studied