Title - City Animals Author: Austin, Elizabeth Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will read about animals that may be found in cities. Students will read about unusual city animals, such as hawks and opossums, and animals with which they are more familiar, such as dogs and squirrels, and where and how they all live in a city. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 94 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 8 Total # of Words 109 # of Different Words 54 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 37 33.9% # of Hi freq words 14 25.9% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 2.8% # of Low freq words 2 3.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Several repetitions of phrases or refrains Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Topics Cities *Animals *Habitats/Environments Low Frequency Words opossums pigeons