Title - Bringing the Rain To Kapiti Plain Author: Aardema, Verna Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A cumulative rhyme relating the story of how Ki-pat ingeniously brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. Entertain Folk Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 538 2.8 640 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 74 Total # of Words 739 # of Different Words 132 Ave Word/.Sent 41 Hi Freq occurs 377 51% # of Hi freq words 42 31.8% % of Long Sentences 116.7 Low Freq occurs 34 4.6% # of Low freq words 15 11.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Repeated patterns in cumulative form Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Difficult Text structure: Difficult Features Integral Setting Retelling of story/fable/legend Difficult names Rhyming Unconventional punctuation Unusual use of vocabulary Topics *Weather Nature Rain Low Frequency Words acacia belated drought herd herdsmen kapiti loosed migrated mooed pasture patches pierced shadowed slender thong