Title - When I Get Bigger
Author: Mayer, Mercer
Publisher: Golden Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Little Critter imagines the things he will do when he gets bigger. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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164 1.7 200
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 17 Total # of Words 203 # of Different Words 114
Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 103 50.7% # of Hi freq words 39 34.2%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 4 2% # of Low freq words 4 3.5%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
First Person
Topics
Age/Aging
*Feelings, Behaviors
Low Frequency Words
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