Title - Borreguita and the Coyote Author: Aardema, Verna Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre What's a little lamb to do about a fierce coyote that wants to eat her? Why, trick him, of course... and and trick him again... and trick him one more time! Here's a lively retelling of a Mexican folk tale. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 513 2.7 640 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 22 Total # of Words 892 # of Different Words 315 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 573 64.2% # of Hi freq words 135 42.9% % of Long Sentences 1.8 Low Freq occurs 47 5.3% # of Low freq words 33 10.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot Difficult names Foreign words Topics Food Chain Tricking Low Frequency Words ached bien bracing charged cougar coughing coyote's curious deserve est freh frisked grant haunches image kindness ledge lunged lush meadow ohooooah overhanging paddled pasture shallow shuh spluttering sprang swallow thicket toothache tumbleweed whoooosh