Title - Scaredy Cat
Author: Williams, Rozanne Lanczak
Publisher: Creative Teaching Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Things that Scaredy Cat chases, chase him back! Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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38 0.7 70
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 5 Total # of Words 85 # of Different Words 15
Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 33 38.8% # of Hi freq words 5 33.3%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 5 5.9% # of Low freq words 1 6.7%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
One line text
2 patterns excl open/close
2-3 Word changes in a pattern
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Captions/Simple
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
Cartoons
Spiders
Cats
Mice
Fears
Chasing/Catching
*Animals
Birds
Low Frequency Words
scaredy