Title - The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Dick and Sally have no time to play. It's winter and they have mountains of snow to shovel. So when the Cat comes to visit, he decides to go inside and to take a bath. No problem, right? Wrong! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 265 2.1 520 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 22 Total # of Words 1627 # of Different Words 289 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 1260 77.4% # of Hi freq words 151 52.2% % of Long Sentences 1.6 Low Freq occurs 3 0.2% # of Low freq words 3 1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Clear cause/effect First Person Rhyming Topics Cats Alphabet Cleaning Messiness *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words nee somebodies yelp