Title - Ballet Stars Author: Holub, Joan Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A ballet performance given in rhyme. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 153 1.6 190 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 11 Total # of Words 121 # of Different Words 83 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 42 34.7% # of Hi freq words 18 21.7% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 5% # of Low freq words 2 2.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: Easy Language: Simple language Sentences: Captions/Simple Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Rhyming Present Tense Topics Dance/Dancing *Music Performing Low Frequency Words ballet sparkly