Title - Willie's Wonderful Pet Author: Cebulash, Mel Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Willie's pet is the only animal that performs on Pet Day at school. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 160 1.7 200 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 12 Total # of Words 263 # of Different Words 124 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 134 51% # of Hi freq words 49 39.5% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Moderate support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple Plot Topics *Animals Worms Pets School Low Frequency Words