Leveled Readings / The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Meat fell on the dirty floor, where workers walked and spit germs.
Adapted · about grade 7
Meat that had fallen on the floor lay in dirt and sawdust, where workers had walked and spit countless germs.
Adapted · about grade 10
Meat that had tumbled onto the floor lay in the dirt and sawdust where workers had tramped and spat uncounted billions of tuberculosis germs.
Used in: Did Progressive Era reformers make life better for workers?