Title - If a Tree Could Talk
Author: Williams, Rozanne Lanczak
Publisher: Creative Teaching Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
What would a tree say? What would a river say? What would animals say? An Earth Day book. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
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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 9 Total # of Words 62 # of Different Words 35
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 16 25.8% # of Hi freq words 8 22.9%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Talking
Trees
Environment
Ecology
*Earth Science
Low Frequency Words