Title - If you were a Verb Author: Dahl, Michael Publisher: Picture Window Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Learn about verbs. Entertain Narrative RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 223 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 37 Total # of Words 401 # of Different Words 178 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 219 54.6% # of Hi freq words 59 33.1% % of Long Sentences 13.2 Low Freq occurs 9 2.2% # of Low freq words 5 2.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Some implications Features Second Person Topics Words *Language Arts Low Frequency Words future lifeguards soar usher verb