Title - Mousetrap
Author: Snowball, Diane
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
A boy hears a mouse in the house and cheers when the clever mouse snatches the cheese without getting caught in the trap. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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82 1.2 120 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 60 # of Different Words 34
Ave Word/.Sent 2 Hi Freq occurs 15 25% # of Hi freq words 9 26.5%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Little support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Sentences: Captions/Simple
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Topics
Mice
Danger
Low Frequency Words