Title - You're Only Old Once Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre In Dr. Seuss' first book for older people, this tale in the familiar Seuss format depicts aging and what life is like for "obsolete children." Persuade Narrative RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2378 5.6 960 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 51 Total # of Words 1228 # of Different Words 591 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 742 60.4% # of Hi freq words 193 32.7% % of Long Sentences 22.8 Low Freq occurs 145 11.8% # of Low freq words 134 22.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Prior Knowledge: Basic understanding. Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Simple Plot Targets adult reader Second Person Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Doctors Age/Aging *Human Body & Health Low Frequency Words ailments allergy alternate anthracite antrums ballew beckoner beckons bellows blight cardigans caribou catcher's caviar certified chalks clinic clinicians computerized copious cousins cure deafer devising dietician docs drawers dreadful eiffel entitled exhalation faraway faring fellow finick finicky fitzgerald fitzpatrick fitzsimmons footsies freckles fungus geographic godspeed grimly gripes hazard hearing's heirs hoping instruct intensified internal martinis mcgrew mcguire mcpherson meantime medals mell muffler murky nary nasturtiums national necktie necktie's nextly nightmares ogle ogler oglers ogling opinions organs outwit pastured patients patties pell pemmican perfected pilled pioneer plight pollen potassium powder's prescribe prescription properly prune qualified questionnairing react readjustment recall reckoned refer renowned repose schmidt scoping shins sniffle solvency soufflé speckled spleen spout spreckles status stepsister's stethed stethoscope stupor swallow swank sylvester sympathetic symptoms tenser terrapin thumbtacks tinted trifle vestibule von wheeler whereupon whiffer whiz winick wuff