Title - Apples, Apples, Apples Author: Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It's a blue sky autumn day and Minna, Pop, Mom, and Dad have decided to go on an outing to Long Hill Orchard. As the bunnies fill their baskets, Farmer Miller teaches them all about apples. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 437 2.5 620 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 17 Total # of Words 990 # of Different Words 346 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 546 55.2% # of Hi freq words 133 38.4% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 43 4.3% # of Low freq words 30 8.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Charts Features Topics *Plants Recipes Autumn Seasons Food Gardens/Gardening How-To *Home Arts & Food *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words aboard aluminum applepip cider cinnamon delicious diced envelopes graft limb maple minna minna's orchard orchards pluck pour precious recipe reduce sauce sayings spooned steadily stock syrup tablespoons weighed whoaaa wrapping