Title - Rabbit's Wish for Snow
Author: Tchin
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Retells the Native American folktale which explains how rabbits came to look as they do today. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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212 2.0 470
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 19 Total # of Words 377 # of Different Words 133
Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 215 57% # of Hi freq words 57 42.9%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 2 0.5% # of Low freq words 1 0.8%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Little support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Clear cause/effect
Topics
Wishes
Changes
Snow
*Animals
Low Frequency Words
climbers