Title - Just a Seed
Author: Blaxland, Wendy
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
What happened when a seed was thrown away? Watch as it grows from a seed into a sapling into a full-grown tree, with fruit of its own! Inform Informational
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
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72 1.1 110 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 74 # of Different Words 32
Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 43 58.1% # of Hi freq words 10 31.3%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 4.1% # of Low freq words 3 9.4%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
1 pattern excl open/close
Patterned but many changes
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
Seeds
Trees
*Plants
Growth/Growing
Life Cycle
Low Frequency Words
nested sapling seedling