Title - Wemberly Worried
Author: Henkes, Kevin
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Wemberly, the mouse, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
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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 28 Total # of Words 525 # of Different Words 182
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 304 57.9% # of Hi freq words 75 41.2%
% of Long Sentences 2.8 Low Freq occurs 25 4.8% # of Low freq words 11 6%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Two speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social
Features
Topics
Feelings/Emotions
Fears
Friendship
*Feelings, Behaviors
*Schools & Education
Low Frequency Words
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