Title - Oh Say Can You Say Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Tongue twisters abound in this classic Dr. Seuss Beginner Book! Entertain Poetry RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 762 3.2 690 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 47 Total # of Words 1223 # of Different Words 498 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 707 57.8% # of Hi freq words 173 34.7% % of Long Sentences 19.6 Low Freq occurs 99 8.1% # of Low freq words 66 13.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Difficult names Rhyming Topics Rhyme Words *Language Arts Low Frequency Words backer bliskers blispers brunch chaps choosy dinty dinwoodie fingered finney finney's fitzsimmon flapper flappers footed fresher freshest fuddnuddler glotz gobbled greener grox groxes happiest hendrix hooey horace instruments jipper keen keener klotz kooky lisps looey lull mandolin musical patter quacker queasy ritzy rough saint schnack schnacks schwinn shinbone shinbones shingle shins skipper skrope slinkey souped spreader's stinkey stringed suds suggest urchin violins von walrus whiskers whispers