Title - Thanksgiving Treat Author: Stock, Catherine Publisher: Bradbury Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre With Thanksgiving just around the corner, everyone is very busy. Grandma is stuffing the turkey. Dad is chopping firewood. The cousins are shucking corn. But the youngest member of the family feels left out. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 259 2.1 520 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 23 Total # of Words 312 # of Different Words 166 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 171 54.8% # of Hi freq words 58 34.9% % of Long Sentences 2 Low Freq occurs 16 5.1% # of Low freq words 12 7.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Simple Plot Topics Trees Preparation Cooking Holidays Family Food Helping *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words chestnuts cinnamon cousins cranberry orchard pocketknife sauce shaker shucking splinters sweetie veranda