Text Leveling System

I Like Myself

RDQ:	199	Max Word/Sent	27	Total Words	258		Diff Words	126
Lex	440	Ave Word/.Sent	9	Hi Freq occurs	155	60.1%	Hi freq	41	32.5%
AR	1.9	Long Sentences	19.2	Low Freq occurs	6	2.3%	Low freq	6	4.8%

I like myself. I'm glad I'm me.]]
There's no one else I'd rather be.]]
I like my eyes, my ears, my nose. I like my fingers and my toes.]]
I like my wild. I like my tame. I like me different and the same.]]
I like me fast. I like me slow. I like me everywhere I go.]]
I like me on the inside, too. For all I think and say and do.]]
Inside, outside, upside down, from head to toe and all around, I like it all. That all is me. And me is all I want to be.]]
And I don't care in any way what someone else may think or say.]]
I may be called a silly nut or crazy cuckoo bird So what? I'm having too much fun, you see, for anything to bother me.]]
Even when I look a mess, I still don't like me any less, cause nothing in this world, you know, can change what's deep inside, and so.]]
No matter if they stop and stare, no person ever anywhere can make me feel that what they see is all there really is to me.]]
I'd still like me with fleas or warts, or with a silly snout that snorts,]]
or knobby knees or hippo hips or purple polka dotted lips.]]
Or Beaver breath or stinky toes or horns protruding from my nose.]]
Or Yikes with spikes all down my spine, or hair that's like a porcupine. I still would be the same, you see.]]
I like myself because I'm me.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Little support

Vocabulary: Easy

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

First Person

Topic

Self Esteem

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

cuckoo	knobby	polka	protruding	spine
warts