Title - The Dressing-Up Box
Author: Mackinnon, Mairi
Publisher: Usborne Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
none Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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100 1.3 140 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 13 Total # of Words 114 # of Different Words 57
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 59 51.8% # of Hi freq words 11 19.3%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 2.6% # of Low freq words 3 5.3%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
First Person
Present Tense
Topics
*Careers
Pretend
Low Frequency Words
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