Title - Rise and Shine!
Author: Carlstrom, Nancy White
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
A young girl visits all day with the animals on a farm, until it is time for them to go to sleep and await a new day. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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266 2.1 520
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 12 Total # of Words 288 # of Different Words 119
Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 124 43.1% # of Hi freq words 26 21.8%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 15 5.2% # of Low freq words 9 7.6%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Several repetitions of phrases or refrains
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Many descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Sound/Sounds
Talking
Questions
*Animals
Farms
Habitat
Low Frequency Words
curled friskily lovey marmalade nuzzle racking skitter wigwagging wooly