Title - The Cake that Mack Ate
Author: Robart, Rose
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
The Cake That Mack Ate builds on relationships and explains what goes into baking a cake in a fun, humorous way, as a seed, a hen, and an egg join in the creation of a big, colorful birthday cake. Entertain Concept
RDQ
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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 43 Total # of Words 189 # of Different Words 30
Ave Word/.Sent 21 Hi Freq occurs 97 51.3% # of Hi freq words 9 30%
% of Long Sentences 55.6 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Repeated patterns in cumulative form
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Many Long Complex
Text structure: Difficult
Features
Topics
Growth/Growing
Order
Cooking
Food
*Home Arts & Food
Relationships
Low Frequency Words