Title - Clifford The Big Red Dog Big Red School Author: Rusu, Meredith Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Clifford misses his best friend Emily Elizabeth every day when she goes to school. He wishes he could go with her. . . But Emily Elizabeth has a better idea-she will make Clifford his own big red school! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 256 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 20 Total # of Words 627 # of Different Words 273 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 367 58.5% # of Hi freq words 122 44.7% % of Long Sentences 1.2 Low Freq occurs 18 2.9% # of Low freq words 15 5.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics Dogs *Animals Friendship *Schools & Education Pets School Low Frequency Words borrowed chalkboard giggling gobbled maracas milkshake milkshakes oversized referred scrapbook slurped supplies tucker what'cha whistled