Title - Happy Valentine's Day, Little Critter
Author: Mayer, Mercer
Publisher: Harper Festival

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
From decorating the classroom with hearts to eating cupcakes and making Valentine’s Day mailboxes, Little Critter is having the best day ever. He’s even making an extra-special card for an extra-special valentine! Entertain Narrative
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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180 1.8 300 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 19 Total # of Words 177 # of Different Words 104
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 84 47.5% # of Hi freq words 39 37.5%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 2 1.1% # of Low freq words 1 1%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Little support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
First Person
Topics
Valentines Day
*Holidays, Events, Cele
Low Frequency Words
extraspecial