Title - Clifford's Family
Author: Bridwell, Norman
Publisher: Scholastic

Print
Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Clifford loves his family and misses them, so Emily Elizabeth takes him to visit his mother, father, and siblings in turn! Clifford's respect for his family shows through in the way he makes time to see them. Entertain Realistic Fiction
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
Find at
195 1.9 410 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 19 Total # of Words 347 # of Different Words 179
Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 206 59.4% # of Hi freq words 77 43%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.3% # of Low freq words 1 0.6%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Topics
Cities
Dogs
*Animals
Family
Farms
Barns
Low Frequency Words
claudia herd