Title - Turkey Trouble Author: Silvano, Wendi Publisher: Two Lions Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Turkey is in trouble. Bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it's almost Thanksgiving . . . and you're the maincourse. But Turkey has an idea--what if he doesn't look like a turkey? What if he looks like another animal instead? Entertain Humor RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 203 2.0 460 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 434 # of Different Words 154 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 188 43.3% # of Hi freq words 61 39.6% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 13 3% # of Low freq words 8 5.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple problem/solution Topics Thanksgiving Danger *Animals Costumes *Holidays, Events, Cele Low Frequency Words crowed desperately gobbled groomed horsing surely turkey's turkeys