Title - Stop that Cow
Author: Mackinnon, Mairi
Publisher: Dallas Morning News

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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142 1.6 180 Amazon
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 9 Total # of Words 155 # of Different Words 83
Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 80 51.6% # of Hi freq words 28 33.7%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Little support
Speech Bubbles
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Topics
Danger
Choices
*Feelings, Behaviors
Low Frequency Words