Title - We Need Trees Author: Hoenecke, Karen Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The reader sees photos of things we do with trees. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 11 0.2 30 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 5 Total # of Words 33 # of Different Words 10 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 13 39.4% # of Hi freq words 2 20% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 3% # of Low freq words 1 10% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: High support Opening or Closing text varies 1 pattern excl open/close 0 - 1 word changes in a pattern Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Captions/Simple Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Present Tense Topics Trees Low Frequency Words syrup