Title - The Great Race
Author: McPhail, David
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
To relieve their boredom, six barnyard friends including a duck, a cow, a rooster, a pig, and others, decide to hold a race. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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163 1.7 200 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 14 Total # of Words 282 # of Different Words 112
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 147 52.1% # of Hi freq words 40 35.7%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
Competition
Racing
Winning/Losing
Low Frequency Words