Title - At The Zoo Author: Kloes, Carol Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre What sorts of animals did we see when we visited the zoo? Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 8 0.1 20 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 8 Total # of Words 29 # of Different Words 15 Ave Word/.Sent 3 Hi Freq occurs 11 37.9% # of Hi freq words 4 26.7% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Caption/Simple Opening or Closing text varies 1 pattern excl open/close Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Captions/Simple Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Topics Zoos *Animals Low Frequency Words