Title - Little Miss Muffet Author: Punter, Russell Publisher: Usborne Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This is a charming extended version of the classic nursery rhyme, specially written for beginner readers ready to tackle more complicated storylines and sentence structures. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 159 1.7 200 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 15 Total # of Words 199 # of Different Words 116 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 99 49.7% # of Hi freq words 45 38.8% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 3% # of Low freq words 5 4.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Retelling of story/fable/legend Rhyming Topics Spiders Fears Friendship *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words curds scaring splitting tuffet whey