Title - Yertle The Turtle Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Yertle the Turtle is ruler of all he can see - but he wants to see more! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 460 2.6 620 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 39 Total # of Words 888 # of Different Words 310 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 560 63.1% # of Hi freq words 126 40.6% % of Long Sentences 5.7 Low Freq occurs 19 2.1% # of Low freq words 16 5.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Rhyming Unusual use of vocabulary Topics *Community Kings/Queens Low Frequency Words brayed burp burped cousins donor faraway kingdom majesty marvelous obeyed ought pardon perched royal skies thundered