Title - Baby Bird's First Nest Author: Asch, Frank Publisher: Harcourt Brace Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre In the middle of the night, Baby Bird rolls over and falls out of her warm, cozy nest. Sleeping Mama Bird is too far away to hear her baby's cries for help. And poor Baby Bird's wings are not yet strong enough to fly. What is she to do? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 246 2.1 510 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 20 Total # of Words 717 # of Different Words 265 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 410 57.2% # of Hi freq words 107 40.4% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 13 1.8% # of Low freq words 12 4.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple problem/solution Topics Challenges Frogs *Animals Birds Low Frequency Words birch crouched hind kerplunk moonlight opposite perch scrambled sniffled spied yawn yawned