Title - Snakes and Lizards Author: Moreton, Daniel Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Guess whose skin is pictured? Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 18 0.3 50 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 4 Total # of Words 42 # of Different Words 14 Ave Word/.Sent 3 Hi Freq occurs 15 35.7% # of Hi freq words 4 28.6% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Moderate support Only 1-4 words per page No pattern variation 2 patterns excl open/close 2-3 Word changes in a pattern Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Topics Reptiles *Animals *Animal Life Low Frequency Words