Title - The Caterpillow Fight
Author: McBratney, Sam
Publisher: Candlewick Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
All the little caterpillars have gone to bed, with their caterpillows for their little heads. But in the middle of the night, one caterpillar decides to wake all the others for a thumping, whumping caterpillow fight! Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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202 2.0 460 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 146 # of Different Words 79
Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 68 46.6% # of Hi freq words 31 39.2%
% of Long Sentences 10 Low Freq occurs 3 2.1% # of Low freq words 3 3.8%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Many descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Rhyming
Unusual use of vocabulary
Topics
Caterpillars
Sleep
Fighting
*Animals
Low Frequency Words
height laughter naughty