Title - There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Cow
Author: Colandro, Lucille
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
You won't believe why the Old Lady swallowed a cow, some hay, a pig, a duck, a horse, a sheep, and a fiddle! Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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122 1.4 160 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 16 Total # of Words 353 # of Different Words 77
Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 174 49.3% # of Hi freq words 25 32.5%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 10 2.8% # of Low freq words 4 5.2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Moderate support
Repeated patterns in cumulative form
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Topics
Mystery
*Animals
Animals: Farm
Low Frequency Words
crowed swallow swallowed swallowing