Title - Don't Be Late Author: Gibson, Akimi Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Beginning with the mouse telling the cat, by progression the various farm animals remind each other not to be late for the dance that day. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 70 1.1 110 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 14 Total # of Words 111 # of Different Words 34 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 42 37.8% # of Hi freq words 8 23.5% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Opening and closing text varies 1 pattern excl open/close Patterned but many changes Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics Dance/Dancing *Animals Low Frequency Words