Title - Family Fun on a Hike Author: Shimmin, Delores Publisher: Becka Book Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 159 1.7 200 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 612 # of Different Words 165 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 267 43.6% # of Hi freq words 55 33.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.2% # of Low freq words 1 0.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Easy Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Headings Features Present Tense Topics Fish Picnics Birds Low Frequency Words prays