Title - The Mixed Up Alphabet
Author: Metzger, Steve
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Z is tired of always coming last! He wants to try something new. But when he convinces the rest of the letters to step out of line and change their order, nothing goes quite the way he planned. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
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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 19 Total # of Words 547 # of Different Words 253
Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 332 60.7% # of Hi freq words 107 42.3%
% of Long Sentences 1.5 Low Freq occurs 2 0.4% # of Low freq words 2 0.8%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Order
Alphabet
Patterns
*Language Arts
Low Frequency Words
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