Text Leveling System

Happy Valentine's Day, Little Critter

RDQ:	180	Max Word/Sent	19	Total Words	177		Diff Words	104
Lex	300	Ave Word/.Sent	7	Hi Freq occurs	84	47.5%	Hi freq	39	37.5%
AR	1.8	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	2	1.1%	Low freq	1	1%

Today is Valentine's Day and I'm really excited because]]
my class is having a big Valentine's Day party.]]
first, we put up lots of decorations.]]
Don't the decorations look great, miss Kitty.]]
Ta da]]
I stuck red hearts everywhere and tiger hung up the streamers.]]
Then in art class, we made special Valentine's Day mailboxes. Everyone hoped they'd get lots of Valentine's.]]
I wanted to make my mailbox really special.]]
At lunch, we had a special Valentine's Day surprise for dessert.]]
Gabby gave me one that said, best pals.]]
Cupcakes. Yum. Yum. At recess I worked on Valentine's for my family.]]
I made an extraspecial one.]]
For my extraspecial Valentine.]]
After recess, we exchanged secret cupids. I wonder who my secret Cupid is. Thank you, bun bun.]]
 It was time to deliver our Valentine's. I gave one to everybody even miss Kitty.]]
I checked my mailbox to see if I got any Valentine's. And guess what? I did.]]
When I got home, I gave the special Valentine I made to my special Valentine. Happy Valentine's Day, mom.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Little support

Dialog: Simple

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

First Person

Topic

Valentines Day

*Holidays, Events, Cele

Low Frequency Words

extraspecial