Title - The Circus under the Sea
Author: Mackinnon, Mairi
Publisher: Usborne Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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132 1.5 170 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 9 Total # of Words 106 # of Different Words 81
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 41 38.7% # of Hi freq words 21 25.9%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 5.7% # of Low freq words 5 6.2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Speech Bubbles
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Circus
*Entertainment & Fun
Sea
Low Frequency Words
audience eddy genius magical showtime