Title - Smallest Cow in the World Author: Paterson, Katherine Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Though Rosie is the meanest cow in the herd, five-year-old Marvin is inconsolable when she is sold and he and his family move to another dairy farm. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 397 2.4 610 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 35 Total # of Words 1162 # of Different Words 314 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 776 66.8% # of Hi freq words 144 45.9% % of Long Sentences 0.5 Low Freq occurs 8 0.7% # of Low freq words 6 1.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Topics Family Farms Imagination *Feelings, Behaviors Pets Pretend Relationships Low Frequency Words calves dumbest imagination manure milked shovel