Title - Jake's Toad House Author: Kanninen, Barbara Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jake and his friends spend their time trying to make the perfect home for a toad. Sprinkled with facts, this book is a great lead in to science lessons on habitats and animals. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 155 1.6 200 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 20 Total # of Words 382 # of Different Words 130 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 194 50.8% # of Hi freq words 54 41.5% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.3% # of Low freq words 1 0.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple problem/solution Topics Frogs Chasing/Catching *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words gross