Title - Llama Llama time to share Author: Dewdney, Anna Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Llama Llama doesn't want to share his toys with his new neighbors. But when fighting leads to broken toys and tears, Llama learns that it's better to share Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 265 2.1 520 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 13 Total # of Words 309 # of Different Words 160 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 136 44% # of Hi freq words 52 32.5% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 15 4.9% # of Low freq words 7 4.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Difficult names Rhyming Topics Sharing Friendship *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words gnu jingly llama mergency moat playtime's thread