Title - We Are Best Friends Author: Aliki Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When his best friend Peter moves away, Robert has no one to play with. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 199 1.9 440 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 13 Total # of Words 645 # of Different Words 215 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 417 64.7% # of Hi freq words 97 45.1% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 5 0.8% # of Low freq words 2 0.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Topics Writing Frogs Friendship Mail Moving Low Frequency Words freckles inkywiggles