Title - The Ant and the Grasshopper
Author: Daynes, Katie
Publisher: Usborne Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Aesop's charming fable retold for beginner readers to tackle with very light support. Ant and Grasshopper can't agree over how to spend the summer. Who will be right when winter comes? Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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77 1.1 110 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 7 Total # of Words 67 # of Different Words 41
Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 16 23.9% # of Hi freq words 10 24.4%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 1.5% # of Low freq words 1 2.4%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Speech Bubbles
Dialog: Two speakers
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Captions/Simple
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Present Tense
Topics
Work
Preparation
*Feelings, Behaviors
Low Frequency Words
carries