Title - Snowflakes Author: Urmston, Kathleen - Karen Evans Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Where are the snowflakes landing? Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 63 1.0 100 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 32 Total # of Words 55 # of Different Words 19 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 28 50.9% # of Hi freq words 7 36.8% % of Long Sentences 33.3 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Present Tense Topics Body *Weather Snow Me Low Frequency Words