Title - Shoveling Snow
Author: Cummings, Pat
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Pam, with the help of her friends, shovels snow and make a snowman Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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70 1.1 110
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 109 # of Different Words 46
Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 49 45% # of Hi freq words 18 39.1%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 5 4.6% # of Low freq words 1 2.2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Several repetitions of phrases or refrains
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
*Weather
Snowmen
Snow
Freedom
Helping
Low Frequency Words
shoveled