Title - The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Author: Punter, Russell Publisher: Usborne Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It's no fun living in a shoe when you have as many children as this old woman. She needs to find a bigger home – and fast Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 177 1.8 270 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 19 Total # of Words 237 # of Different Words 132 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 140 59.1% # of Hi freq words 53 40.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 2.5% # of Low freq words 6 4.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Parody Difficult names Rhyming Topics Giants Children Helping *Life Styles Low Frequency Words aisha jeremy knit sandeep sean yasmin