Text Leveling System

Llama Llama time to share

RDQ:	265	Max Word/Sent	13	Total Words	309		Diff Words	160
Lex	520	Ave Word/.Sent	4	Hi Freq occurs	136	44%	Hi freq	52	32.5%
AR	2.1	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	15	4.9%	Low freq	7	4.4%

Llama, this is Nelly gnu. Look! ]]
She has a Dolly too.]]
Mrs. Gnu, would you like tea? Come and have a cup with me.]]
You two kids can play in there. And llama, don't forget to share.]]
Trucks and trains and puzzles too. What's the gnu Girl want to do? Play with kitchen? Build with blocks? Llama opens up his box.] ]
Nelly starts to build a town. Llama llama starts to frown. Nelly gnu makes walls and stairs. llama watches from a chair.]]
Nelly stacks the blocks up high. Fuzzy llama wants to try. It's a castle. Make it tall. Fuzzy llama jumps the wall.]]
Build a tower. Make a Moat. Nellie’s Dolly rows a boat. What can llama llama add? Maybe sharing’s not so bad.]]
Little baby gnu makes noise. Mrs. gnu gets jingly toys. Baby screams and kicks his feet. Mama thinks it's time to eat.]]
Moms are talking. Baby's chewing. Where's that gnu girl? What's she doing?]]
OH, disaster. Dolly drama! Nellie gnu has fuzzy llama.]]
He's not hers. This isn't fair.]]
Llama doesn't like to share.]]
Fuzzy llama ripped in two all because of Nelly gnu!]]
 It's A llama mergency. Mama. Fix his arm for me.]]
A bit of thread and good as new. But this is what we're going to do.]]
I'll put fuzzy on the stairs until you're sure that you can share.]]
Nelly’s sorry. Llama, too. It's time for something else to do.]]
Maybe tractors? Maybe not. Like to dress up? Not a lot.]]
Let's play kitchen. Make a cake. Nelly mixes. Llama bakes.]]
Look our fancy cake is done. Hmmmm what would make this game more fun?]]
Fuzzy llama, on the stairs. Llama thinks it's time to share.]]
Playtime’s over. It's the end.]]
But llama has a brand new friend.]]
Nelly will be back, and then llama wants to share again.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Little support

Dialog: Two speakers

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Difficult names

Rhyming

Topic

Sharing

Friendship

*Feelings, Behaviors

Low Frequency Words

gnu	jingly	llama	mergency	moat
playtime's	thread