Title - Who Sank the Boat Author: Allen, Pamela Publisher: Sandcastle Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The reader is invited to guess who causes the boat to sink when five animal friends of varying sizes decide to go for a row. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 226 2.0 490 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 23 Total # of Words 218 # of Different Words 87 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 110 50.5% # of Hi freq words 31 35.6% % of Long Sentences 10.5 Low Freq occurs 6 2.8% # of Low freq words 6 6.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Several repetitions of phrases or refrains Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Unconventional punctuation Topics Size Spatial Sense Water Boats Mystery Challenges *Animals Low Frequency Words knit level lightest particular peffer's tilted