Title - Gifts for Dad
Author: Urmston, Kathleen - Karen Evans
Publisher: Kaeden Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Members of a family go out to buy gifts for Dad, and accidentally end up all buying the same gift! Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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100 1.3 140 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 11 Total # of Words 179 # of Different Words 51
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 73 40.8% # of Hi freq words 15 29.4%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.6% # of Low freq words 1 2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Some phrases/refrains repeated
Dialog: Two speakers
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
Shopping
Fathers
Gifts
*Family & Friends
Low Frequency Words
hardware