Title - All Tutus Should Be Pink Author: Brownrigg, Sheri Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards. Entertain Narrative RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 240 2.0 500 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 14 Total # of Words 242 # of Different Words 130 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 115 47.5% # of Hi freq words 45 34.6% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 7 2.9% # of Low freq words 7 5.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features First Person Topics Clothes Colors Friendship Low Frequency Words famished grocery ourselves pepe studio swooshes wears