Title - Family Fun at the Zoo Author: Shimmin, Delores Publisher: Becka Book Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 188 1.9 360 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 620 # of Different Words 196 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 313 50.5% # of Hi freq words 65 33.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 10 1.6% # of Low freq words 6 3.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Headings Features Present Tense Topics Zoos *Animals Low Frequency Words curve gulp gulps nighttime panther