Title - Anansi and the Bag of Wisdom Author: Sims, Lesley Publisher: Usborne Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Anansi, King of the Spiders, is given a bag of wisdom to share but selfishly decides to keep it for himself. But can he carry it up to his secret hiding place without dropping it? Entertain Fables RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 117 1.4 160 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 13 Total # of Words 133 # of Different Words 79 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 70 52.6% # of Hi freq words 32 40.5% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 4 3% # of Low freq words 2 2.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Speech Bubbles Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple Plot Topics Sharing Spiders *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words cleverest wisdom