Title - The Three Little Pigs Author: Jerrard, Jane Publisher: Publications International Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Fairy Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 210 2.0 470 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 24 Total # of Words 651 # of Different Words 215 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 419 64.4% # of Hi freq words 95 44.2% % of Long Sentences 11.5 Low Freq occurs 12 1.8% # of Low freq words 8 3.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Retelling of story/fable/legend Topics *Safety Danger Wolves *Animals Low Frequency Words chinny delicious hoping knocking rainwater sturdy turnip turnips