Text Leveling System

The Dragon and the Phoenix

RDQ:	182	Max Word/Sent	14	Total Words	236		Diff Words	99
Lex	310	Ave Word/.Sent	7	Hi Freq occurs	110	46.6%	Hi freq	27	27.3%
AR	1.8	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	11	4.7%	Low freq	3	3%

This is a story of dragon mountain, phoenix mountain]]
and a shining lake. It begins thousands of years ago, in China.]]
Long, long ago, a dragon lived beside a magic river.]]
A dark forest grew on the other side of the river.]]
Deep inside the forest lived a phoenix.]]
Every day, the dragon swam in the river.]]
Every day, the phoenix flew in the sky above.]]
One day, they met on an island in the river.]]
A shiny Pebble lay on the sand. It's beautiful.]]
The dragon washed it in the river.]]
The phoenix polished it with a feather. And the Pebble became a Pearl.]]
The dragon and the phoenix stayed on the island]]
watching the Pearl.]]
The Pearl shone brighter than stars. Brighter than the sun.]]
It was so bright, the queen of heaven saw it shine.]]
I want that Pearl. She said.]]
That night, she sent a guard to steal it.]]
In the morning, the Pearl was gone. The dragon looked in the magic river.]]
The phoenix looked in the dark forest. No Pearl was there.]]
Then they saw it shining in the sky. They flew up to heaven and saw the queen.]]
That Pearl is ours. No, it's mine. The Pearl fell from the sky.]]
It landed on the ground and became a shining lake. We must never leave it. The dragon and the phoenix lay beside it.]]
They are still there today.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Speech Bubbles

Dialog: Two speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Topic

Magic

Dragons

Birds

Low Frequency Words

pearl

phoenix

shone