Title - Bathtime for Biscuit
Author: Capucilla, Alyssa Satin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Print
Synopsis
Authors Purpose
Genre
Everything is ready for Biscuit's bath; everything except Biscuit! He wants to roll in the mud and play with his friend Puddles!
Entertain
Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader
Lexile
Find at
90
1.2
130
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
10
Total # of Words
149
# of Different Words
47
Ave Word/.Sent
3
Hi Freq occurs
45
30.2%
# of Hi freq words
14
29.8%
% of Long Sentences
0
Low Freq occurs
5
3.4%
# of Low freq words
1
2.1%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Moderate support
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Present Tense
Onomatopoeia
Topics
Dogs
*Animals
Baths
Low Frequency Words
biscuit