Title - Surprise
Author: Butler, Elizabeth
Publisher: Celebration Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
When students plan to surprise their teacher, she surprises them. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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133 1.5 170
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 15 Total # of Words 145 # of Different Words 75
Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 66 45.5% # of Hi freq words 24 32%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 13 9% # of Low freq words 5 6.7%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
Teacher/Teaching
Babies
Gifts
Classrooms
*Feelings, Behaviors
Low Frequency Words
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