Text Leveling System

Little Miss Muffet

RDQ:	159	Max Word/Sent	15	Total Words	199		Diff Words	116
Lex	200	Ave Word/.Sent	6	Hi Freq occurs	99	49.7%	Hi freq	45	38.8%
AR	1.7	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	6	3%	Low freq	5	4.3%

Little Miss muffet, sat on a tuffet,]]
eating her curds and whey.]]
Along came a spider, who dropped down beside her]]
and frightened miss muffet away.]]
Help. Cried miss muffet.]]
She ran from her tuffet and into the woods down below.]]
Come back. Called the spider. He rushed off to find her.]]
I'm sorry for scaring you so.]]
The little girl sighed. What a bad place to hide.]]
Now I'm lost. I'll be stuck here all night.]]
Then she heard a deep growl and an ear splitting howl.]]
They gave poor miss muffet a fright.]]
A big wolf jumped out. He said with a shout,]]
it's time for my dinner, my dear.]]
I'll have little girl pie.]]
Put her down. Came a cry. Don't worry Seb spider is here.]]
The wolf gave a smile. I do like your style.]]
But what can you do against me?]]
I'll show you, said Seb. He spun a strong web]]
And tied the bad wolf to a tree.]]
Miss muffet said, Seb, what a wonderful web.]]
Now let's go. So Seb showed her the way.]]
Now she's friends with Seb spider.]]
He hangs down beside her and spins for miss muffet all day.

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Blend of written/oral

Features

Retelling of story/fable/legend

Rhyming

Topic

Spiders

Fears

Friendship

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

curds

scaring

splitting

tuffet

whey