Title - If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Author: Numeroff, Laura Joffe
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix. Entertain Concept
RDQ
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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 306 # of Different Words 126
Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 157 51.3% # of Hi freq words 40 31.7%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 7 2.3% # of Low freq words 5 4%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Concept: Fanciful
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Topics
Puppets
Painting
Trying to please
*Animals
Food
Low Frequency Words
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