Title - That's Good! That's Bad! Author: Cuyler, Margery Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A little boy has a series of adventures and misadventures with a bunch of wild animals at the zoo. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 261 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 22 Total # of Words 482 # of Different Words 193 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 272 56.4% # of Hi freq words 56 29% % of Long Sentences 1.5 Low Freq occurs 10 2.1% # of Low freq words 10 5.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Several repetitions of phrases or refrains Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Features Onomatopoeia Topics Flight/Flying *Animals Adventures Animals: Jungle Low Frequency Words bumpily fore giddyap prickly quicksand slurp squabbling swampy whish whoops