Title - A Bus for Miss Moss
Author: Mackinnon, Mairi
Publisher: Usborne Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. Entertain Narrative
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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129 1.5 170 Amazon
RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels
Sentences Total Words Different Words
Max Word/Sent 11 Total # of Words 168 # of Different Words 90
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 82 48.8% # of Hi freq words 30 33.3%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 4 2.4% # of Low freq words 4 4.4%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Buses
Changes
Moving
Low Frequency Words
cough meadow milling orchard