Title - Mother's Day
Author: LaVelle, Sharla
Publisher: Reading A-Z

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Readers will read about a boy who, with the help of his father, prepares breakfast for his mom on Mother's Day. Entertain Biographies/Auto
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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121 1.4 160 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 11 Total # of Words 150 # of Different Words 67
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 65 43.3% # of Hi freq words 19 28.4%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 10 6.7% # of Low freq words 3 4.5%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Some phrases/refrains repeated
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
First Person
Present Tense
Topics
*Holidays, Events, Cele
Low Frequency Words
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