Title - The Day the Cow Sneezed Author: Flora, James Publisher: Harcourt Brace Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre "I bet your cow never sneezed a hole in the schoolhouse wall. Our cow did!" Thus begins one of the funniest, fastest-paced, tallest-tale stories ever told! The fun mounts as absurdity cascades on absurdity. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 714 3.1 680 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 29 Total # of Words 1283 # of Different Words 487 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 801 62.4% # of Hi freq words 174 35.7% % of Long Sentences 11.3 Low Freq occurs 49 3.8% # of Low freq words 39 8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Oral/Natural Concept: Fanciful Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Clear cause/effect Topics *Transportation Zoos Elaboration Circus *Animals Health Imagination Towns Low Frequency Words blowie charged chasing crinkly curlicued fault ferris fireboat fletcher fletcher's freeing humor jackknife laundry lemonade lever makemson's neglecting passengers pasture picket policemen reciting redder sassafras schoolhouse scrunched social spied stations statue studies tangled tornado watered weeny whambo whopping zowie