Title - Family Fun on the Farm Author: Shimmin, Delores Publisher: Becka Book Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 210 2.0 470 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 17 Total # of Words 789 # of Different Words 245 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 428 54.2% # of Hi freq words 87 35.5% % of Long Sentences 1.8 Low Freq occurs 10 1.3% # of Low freq words 5 2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Easy Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Headings Features Present Tense Topics *Animals Farms Low Frequency Words downy piglet piglets spies stoops