Title - The Mitten
Author: Page, Katalina
Publisher: Reading A-Z

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Reading A-Z: This humorous story retells the traditional Ukrainian wintertime tale of several animals squeezing into a mitten to stay warm. Simple text supports early readers. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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59 1.0 100 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 8 Total # of Words 74 # of Different Words 23
Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 27 36.5% # of Hi freq words 6 26.1%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 9 12.2% # of Low freq words 3 13%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Captions/Simple
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Topics
Temperature
*Animals
Low Frequency Words
kaboom squash squish