Title - The Marching Band Author: Urmston, Kathleen - Karen Evans Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre What different instruments are played by the members of a marching band? Find out here! Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3 0.1 10 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 5 Total # of Words 35 # of Different Words 14 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 21 60% # of Hi freq words 5 35.7% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 8.6% # of Low freq words 3 21.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Caption/Simple Opening or Closing text varies 1 pattern excl open/close 0 - 1 word changes in a pattern Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Captions/Simple Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Topics *Music Musical instruments Low Frequency Words clarinet cymbals tuba