Title - Wheels on the Bus
Author: Raffi
Publisher: Crown Publishers

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
As a bus drives through a town, there are several different sounds and motions that it and its passengers make. Entertain Songs
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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85 1.2 120 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 28 Total # of Words 224 # of Different Words 25
Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 84 37.5% # of Hi freq words 5 20%
% of Long Sentences 5.6 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Topics
Sound/Sounds
*Transportation
Buses
*Music
Low Frequency Words