Title - I Love Mud and Mud Loves Me Author: Stephens, Vicki Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Sam loves mud and jam and all sorts of things that make him dirty and messy. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 81 1.2 120 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 12 Total # of Words 121 # of Different Words 34 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 50 41.3% # of Hi freq words 12 35.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Speech Bubbles Opening and closing text varies 1 pattern excl open/close Patterned but many changes Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features First Person Topics Mothers Love Messiness Baths *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words