Title - Interrupting Chicken Author: Stein, David Ezra Publisher: Candlewick Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story — and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can’t help herself! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 221 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 24 Total # of Words 489 # of Different Words 197 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 271 55.4% # of Hi freq words 82 41.6% % of Long Sentences 3.7 Low Freq occurs 9 1.8% # of Low freq words 8 4.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics Storytelling Sleep Behaviors *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words hood's interrupt interrupted involved ohh panic warn yawning