Title - Animal Eyes
Author: Bull, Pam
Publisher: Reading A-Z

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Readers will get an up-close look at the eyes of some familiar animals. Readers are encouraged to guess what kind of animal has the type of eyes presented before turning the page to find out. Inform Informational
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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132 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 12 Total # of Words 161 # of Different Words 76
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 62 38.5% # of Hi freq words 26 34.2%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.6% # of Low freq words 1 1.3%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Some phrases/refrains repeated
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Difficult names
Topics
Spiders
Nature
*Animals
Insects
Low Frequency Words
dragonflies