Title - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Author: Numeroff, Laura Joffe Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim.... Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 216 2.0 480 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 21 Total # of Words 292 # of Different Words 121 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 143 49% # of Hi freq words 37 30.6% % of Long Sentences 4 Low Freq occurs 5 1.7% # of Low freq words 4 3.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Sharing Attitudes Trying to please Mice Drawing Food Helping Low Frequency Words mustache refrigerator scissors scotch