Title - Town Mouse Country Mouse Author: Brett, Jan Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 818 3.3 700 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 37 Total # of Words 1343 # of Different Words 496 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 936 69.7% # of Hi freq words 224 45.2% % of Long Sentences 16.3 Low Freq occurs 52 3.9% # of Low freq words 46 9.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Concept: Fanciful Features Character development Twist ending Topics Mice Differences Danger *Animals Habitat *Life Styles Low Frequency Words ahold bustle churn curious discouraged drenched exhausted frantically furry gingerly glistening glowering hedgehog hickory hustle interrupted meadow morsel mousetraps musty otter pantry peaceful perils pouring prowled quaked raindrops riverbank sauces shelves soot sooty spied splendid stroll sumptuous terrifying terror thunderstorm tingle underbrush waking wandered whiskers winced