Title - What Animals Eat
Author: Jensen, Ned
Publisher: Reading A-Z

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Readers will discover that cows eat grass, birds eat seeds, and monkeys eat fruit, but what goats eat is sure to surprise and delight them. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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70 1.1 110
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 62 # of Different Words 29
Ave Word/.Sent 3 Hi Freq occurs 17 27.4% # of Hi freq words 3 10.3%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 4 6.5% # of Low freq words 2 6.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Moderate support
Lengthy variation from pattern
Some phrases/refrains repeated
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Onomatopoeia
Topics
*Animals
Eating
Low Frequency Words
gulp slurp