Title - Fireflies Author: Floyd, Lucy Publisher: Celebration Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The life of a firefly. Entertain Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 157 1.7 200 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 13 Total # of Words 112 # of Different Words 70 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 41 36.6% # of Hi freq words 23 32.9% % of Long Sentences 5.9 Low Freq occurs 10 8.9% # of Low freq words 7 10% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Diagrams Features Topics *Animals Insects Low Frequency Words abdomen antennae hatches larva messages pupa thorax