Title - Moon Zoom Author: Sims, Lesley Publisher: Usborne Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 111 1.4 150 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 8 Total # of Words 111 # of Different Words 75 Ave Word/.Sent 3 Hi Freq occurs 43 38.7% # of Hi freq words 20 26.7% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Speech Bubbles Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Rhyming Topics *Space Sleep Moon Picnics Rockets Low Frequency Words