Title - Grasshoppers Author: Berger, Melvin Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Fun facts about grasshoppers. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 116 1.4 150 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 14 Total # of Words 126 # of Different Words 70 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 38 30.2% # of Hi freq words 19 27.1% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.8% # of Low freq words 1 1.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Some phrases/refrains repeated Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics *Animals Bugs *Animal Life Low Frequency Words nymphs