Title - Guess What Kind of Ball Author: Urmston, Kathleen - Karen Evans Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre What kind of ball is it? It's not a basketball, it's not a soccer ball -- what kind of ball is it? Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 63 1.0 100 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 214 # of Different Words 21 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 117 54.7% # of Hi freq words 7 33.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Moderate support Repeated patterns in cumulative form Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Topics Toys Baseball Basketball Football Soccer *Movement & Sports Low Frequency Words