Title - Jake's Lemonade Stand Author: Kanninen, Barbara Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The price of the lemonade changes as the customers have less and less money to spend at the lemonade stand set up by Jake. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 135 1.5 170 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 12 Total # of Words 296 # of Different Words 68 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 132 44.6% # of Hi freq words 24 35.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 2% # of Low freq words 2 2.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple problem/solution Topics Money Buying/Selling *Math Low Frequency Words lemonade purse