Title - Beautiful Bugs Author: Fleming, Maria Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Rhyming text describes the photos of bugs and explains why they are beautiful. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 59 1.0 100 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 12 Total # of Words 69 # of Different Words 33 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 18 26.1% # of Hi freq words 9 27.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: High support Opening or Closing text varies 1 pattern excl open/close Patterned but many changes Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics *Animals Bugs Comparisons Insects Low Frequency Words