Title - Frog and Toad Are Friends
Author: Lobel, Arnold
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other just as best friends should be. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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425 2.5 620 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 24 Total # of Words 2287 # of Different Words 407
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1621 70.9% # of Hi freq words 205 50.4%
% of Long Sentences 1.3 Low Freq occurs 19 0.8% # of Low freq words 12 2.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Two speakers
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Topics
Writing
Storytelling
Appearances
Searching/Hunting
Frogs
Swimming
Months
Calendars
Friendship
Mail
*Family & Friends
Low Frequency Words
calendar dragonflies holed january meadow meadows pour pouring riverbank sewed
shutters sparrow