Title - Just a Mess
Author: Mayer, Mercer
Publisher: Golden Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
In this hilarious picture-book tale, the very popular Little Critter is forced to clean up his room in order to find his lost baseball mitt. His way of dealing with the mess is fast and funny -- and ultimately successful! Entertain Realistic Fiction
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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141 1.6 180 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 15 Total # of Words 206 # of Different Words 104
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 126 61.2% # of Hi freq words 42 40.4%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 1.5% # of Low freq words 3 2.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
First Person
Topics
Toys
Work
Searching/Hunting
Cleaning
Habitat
*Feelings, Behaviors
Places
Pretend
Responsibility
Low Frequency Words
drawers straightened vacuumed