Title - A Clean House for Mole and Mouse Author: Ziefert, Harriet Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mole and Mouse work hard cleaning and tidying their house and spend the rest of the day outside so their house will stay clean. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 136 1.5 180 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 15 Total # of Words 201 # of Different Words 77 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 108 53.7% # of Hi freq words 30 39% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.5% # of Low freq words 1 1.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Some phrases/refrains repeated Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Simple problem/solution Topics Mice Cleaning *Animals Low Frequency Words shower