Title - Five Little Chicks Author: Unknown Publisher: MacMillan Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Five little chicks and their mother peck in the corn patch in search of breakfast. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 146 1.6 190 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 22 Total # of Words 131 # of Different Words 53 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 42 32.1% # of Hi freq words 9 17% % of Long Sentences 45.5 Low Freq occurs 3 2.3% # of Low freq words 3 5.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Several repetitions of phrases or refrains Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Rhyming Topics Mothers *Animals Food Birds Low Frequency Words butterbean shrug squirm