Title - Too Many Puppies Author: Brewster, Patience Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Delighted when her dog Milly has seven puppies, a little girl wants to keep them all, until she sadly realizes that so many puppies require much more work than she can accomplish. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 207 2.0 470 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 22 Total # of Words 480 # of Different Words 184 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 273 56.9% # of Hi freq words 77 41.8% % of Long Sentences 3.1 Low Freq occurs 2 0.4% # of Low freq words 2 1.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Character traits Character development Topics Dogs Babies *Animals Birth Numbers Pets Low Frequency Words fuzzier scaredy