Title - The Time Song
Author: Williams, Rozanne Lanczak
Publisher: Candlewick Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Learn the song and learn minutes in an hour, how many days in a week... Entertain Songs
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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100 1.3 140
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 102 # of Different Words 64
Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 37 36.3% # of Hi freq words 16 25%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 5 4.9% # of Low freq words 3 4.7%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Some phrases/refrains repeated
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Time
Clocks
Days of the week
Calendars
Measurement
*Math
Low Frequency Words
measure rhyme shower