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