Title - Ants Author: Berger, Melvin Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Fun facts about the world of ants. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 116 1.4 150 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 134 # of Different Words 68 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 30 22.4% # of Hi freq words 17 25% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Several repetitions of phrases or refrains Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics *Animals Bugs *Animal Life Low Frequency Words