Title - Hot and Cold Poems Author: Foster, John Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Poetry RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 197 1.9 430 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 29 Total # of Words 279 # of Different Words 122 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 146 52.3% # of Hi freq words 40 32.8% % of Long Sentences 30.8 Low Freq occurs 2 0.7% # of Low freq words 1 0.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Easy Language: Simple language Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Rhyming Topics Temperature *Weather Low Frequency Words lolly