Title - Dog Diary Author: Mackinnon, Mairi Publisher: Usborne Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. Entertain Diary/Journal/Letters RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 122 1.4 160 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 10 Total # of Words 165 # of Different Words 95 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 82 49.7% # of Hi freq words 31 32.6% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 5 3% # of Low freq words 2 2.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features First Person Rhyming Topics Actions Dogs *Animals Low Frequency Words jock suppertime