Title - The Three Little Javelinas Author: Lowell, Susan Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A southwest version of the 3 little pigs. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 600 2.9 660 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 26 Total # of Words 991 # of Different Words 378 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 626 63.2% # of Hi freq words 148 39.2% % of Long Sentences 2.9 Low Freq occurs 55 5.5% # of Low freq words 34 9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Parody Topics Deserts Danger *Animals Animals: Desert Low Frequency Words adobe adobes chinny cousins coyote's discouraged escaped fortunes gathering hooves hullabaloo invisible javelina javelina's javelinas language lazily magical palo raggedy saguaro saguaros sauce sizzle sliding southwestern suspicious tumbleweed tumbleweeds verde wandered whirling whirlwind whisked