Title - Friends Around the World
Author: Silverberg, Bea
Publisher: Reading A-Z

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Readers will read about children from various countries around the world. All of the children in the book tell their names and where they live. They also share something about what they like to do for entertainment and a type of food they like to eat. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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169 1.7 210 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 9 Total # of Words 196 # of Different Words 107
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 100 51% # of Hi freq words 28 26.2%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 2 1% # of Low freq words 2 1.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Maps/Key
Glossary
Features
First Person
Difficult names
Present Tense
Topics
*Family & Friends
Low Frequency Words
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