Title - Mop Top Author: Freeman, Don Publisher: Viking Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Moppy is a five-year-old boy who knows one thing: He does not want to get his hair cut. But when Moppy is mistaken for an actual mop at the grocery store, he realizes he’s got to face the barber. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 430 2.5 620 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 28 Total # of Words 904 # of Different Words 374 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 618 68.4% # of Hi freq words 174 46.5% % of Long Sentences 15.4 Low Freq occurs 34 3.8% # of Low freq words 26 7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Clear cause/effect Topics Birthdays Appearances Imagination *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words floppiest fluffiest forevermore grocery hippity lollipops moppy moppy's mowed mowing opposite ought pardon pleaded salesman scurried skipper snippers snipping soaring sonny spick tarzan tidy vacant woolly