Title - Big Red Barn Author: Brown, Margaret Wise Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre There were horses and sheep and goats and geese -- and a jaunty old scarecrow leaning on his hoe. And they all lived together by the big red barn. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 254 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 23 Total # of Words 329 # of Different Words 147 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 188 57.1% # of Hi freq words 42 28.6% % of Long Sentences 2.8 Low Freq occurs 11 3.3% # of Low freq words 9 6.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Features Topics Sound/Sounds Sleep *Animals Farms Barns Night Noises Low Frequency Words bantam lowed pigeon rustling scarecrow squealed tomcat vane yeow