Title - Mrs. Brice's Mice
Author: Hoff, Syd
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Among Mrs. Brice's 25 mice, all but one do everything together. And this mouse's difference comes in handy when the mice meet a cat, and while twelve run this way and twelve run that, this mouse runs this way and that, wearing out the cat and saving them all. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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201 2.0 460 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 25 Total # of Words 387 # of Different Words 152
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 203 52.5% # of Hi freq words 64 42.1%
% of Long Sentences 6 Low Freq occurs 2 0.5% # of Low freq words 2 1.3%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Several repetitions of phrases or refrains
Dialog: Simple
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Topics
Shopping
Dance/Dancing
Mice
*Animals
Food
Pets
Low Frequency Words
aisle chasing