Title - The Curious Kitten Author: Baglio, Ben M. Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Shamrock is a tabby kitten, with bright green eyes and tiger stripes. Mandy thinks he's very cute - but also very nosy! When Shamrock goes outside for the very first time, he soon runs into trouble... Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 843 3.4 710 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 26 Total # of Words 3030 # of Different Words 784 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2144 70.8% # of Hi freq words 359 45.8% % of Long Sentences 2 Low Freq occurs 97 3.2% # of Low freq words 72 9.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Features Simple problem/solution Topics Cats Lost *Animals Pets Low Frequency Words anxiously burrow cabbie cairn carrier clinic collected curb curious curtain daisies equipment examination exploring fellow fitted fluffier foster further gorgeous grasping greenest halt happier hoping kitten's knowing knox latch level lively meowed meowing microchip microchips niece nosy pasting pawed peered peering playfully pounced pouncing receptionist redfern rescued rinds rover ruffled runaway rung scrapbook scrapbook's scrapbooks shamrock shamrock's shamrocks shoelaces shrugged skidded sounding spoilsport stripey supermarket sweatshirt tabby tearfully terrier warned welford wobbly