Title - Wheels!
Author: Cobb, Annie
Publisher: Random House
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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Train wheels. Plane wheels. Gear wheels. Rear wheels. What if there were NO wheels? How would people go? Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)		 Accelerated Reader Lexile
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50 1.0 90 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 7 Total # of Words 69 # of Different Words 34
Ave Word/.Sent 2 Hi Freq occurs 15 21.7% # of Hi freq words 7 20.6%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 1.4% # of Low freq words 1 2.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Moderate support
Several repetitions of phrases or refrains
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Captions/Simple
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Rhyming
Topics
*Transportation
Machines
*Technology & Progress
Low Frequency Words
tow