Text Leveling System

Round Trip

RDQ:	219	Max Word/Sent	18	Total Words	252		Diff Words	138
Lex	480	Ave Word/.Sent	7	Hi Freq occurs	138	54.8%	Hi freq	39	28.3%
AR	2.0	Long Sentences	0	Low Freq occurs	13	5.2%	Low freq	13	9.4%

We started out as soon as it was light. 
Our neighborhood was quiet the house was dark. The sun shone on the pond.Town was empty the stores still closed. We passed a small farm in the valley  and fields of wheat. We counted the cars of a train. The road wound through the mountains. Trails led into the woods. On the highway we headed for the coast. The water was rough the waves high. We followed the shore past marshy inlets and summer cottages. Then we saw the city. We crossed a bridge and we were there. After parking the car we rode the subway. Then we went to a movie and to the top of the tallest building. We looked down. We watched as the sun set. Time to turn around. The sky was dark. Lights came on all over the city. Back on the street we looked up at where we had been. Then we had dinner in a restaurant and picked up our car from the garage. We left the shining starlit city. In the country telephone poles lined the road. We looked back. Searchlights pierced the sky. We saw fireworks and stopped to watch. As the smoke from the fireworks drifted away and the birds resettled in the trees we drove on. We went under an expressway. Lightning flashed across the sky. It rained hard and puddles formed. We passed smoky factories. We took the tunnel under the river and soon saw our moonlit street. Home again.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

One line text

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Simple language

Sentences: Simple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

Features

Topic

Travel/Traveling

Cities

Tricks

Light

Night

Low Frequency Words

expressway	factories	inlets	marshy	moonlit
neighborhood	pierced	resettled	restaurant	rough
searchlights	shone	smoky	starlit